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Is METONYMY a Scrabble word?

✔ In our word list METONYMY is in ENABLE, the open word list behind Words With Friends and most word apps. For official tournament Scrabble, check Merriam-Webster's Scrabble dictionary.

Scrabble pointsWords With Friends pointsLetters
18198

What does METONYMY mean?

  1. nounsubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

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Words inside METONYMY

See all 58 words you can make from METONYMY

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Our word list is ENABLE, first published in 2000 and still used by most word games.

Meanings come from Princeton WordNet (2011). How common a word is comes from wordfreq.

Look up METONYMY in Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Collins or Dictionary.com. Check it for Scrabble at Merriam-Webster Scrabble.

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Is METONYMY a Scrabble word?

METONYMY is in ENABLE, the word list Words With Friends closely matches, and most ENABLE words are playable in North American Scrabble. Confirm tournament validity in the official Scrabble dictionary.

How many points is METONYMY worth?

METONYMY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words With Friends, before bonus squares.

What does METONYMY mean?

Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads').