APOSIOPESIS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. APOSIOPESIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APOSIOPESIS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APOSIOPESIS is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APOSIOPESIS
No single letter turns APOSIOPESIS into another word.
How APOSIOPESIS scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in APOSIOPESIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so APOSIOPESIS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does APOSIOPESIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A figure of speech in which a speaker abruptly stops mid-sentence, leaving the thought unfinished.
Writers use aposiopesis to show strong emotion, hesitation or a threat too dreadful to complete, usually marked with a dash or ellipsis. Realistic dialogue is full of it, since people often trail off rather than finish.
How APOSIOPESIS is used
Aposiopesis is a rhetorical term used in literary and language studies.
- His threat ended in aposiopesis: "If you ever again, I will..."
- The novelist uses aposiopesis to capture her narrator's shock.
- Students identified the aposiopesis in the final line of the speech.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APOSIOPESIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in APOSIOPESIS
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Common questions about APOSIOPESIS
- Is APOSIOPESIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APOSIOPESIS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APOSIOPESIS worth?
- APOSIOPESIS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APOSIOPESIS mean?
- A figure of speech in which a speaker abruptly stops mid-sentence, leaving the thought unfinished.
- What letters can be added to APOSIOPESIS?
- No single letter can be added to APOSIOPESIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of APOSIOPESIS:
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