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CONTRACTION

11 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 22 pts

CONTRACTION is a valid 11-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 22 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

CONTRACTIONS-s 11

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

CONTRACT 11 CONTRACTS 11 CONTRACTED 11 CONTRACTING 11 CONTRACTIVE 11 CONTRACTABLE 11 CONTRACTEDLY 11 CONTRACTIBLE 11 CONTRACTIBLY 11 CONTRACTIONAL 11 CONTRACTIVELY 11 CONTRACTABILITY 11 CONTRACTIBILITY 11 CONTRACTIVENESS 11 CONTRACTIBILITIES 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
    • Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.
  2. archaiccountableuncountableAn act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.
  3. countableuncountableThe process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
    • the contraction of malaria
  4. archaiccountableobsoleteuncountableAn abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
  5. countableuncountableA stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
  6. countableuncountableA shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
  7. countableuncountableA period of economic decline or negative growth.
    • The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.
  8. countableuncountableA process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
    • In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.
  9. countableuncountableIn the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
    • Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.
  10. countableuncountableSynonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
  11. countableuncountableThe preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
  12. broadlycountableuncountableA shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
  13. countableobsoleterareuncountableAn act of collecting or gathering.