syllepsis

1. A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.

2. The use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case.

3. The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense.

4. A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g. neither they nor it is working).

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
syllepsis	14	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
el	2
es	2
is	2
li	2
pe	4
pi	4
si	2
ye	5

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ell	3
els	3
ess	3
ill	3
lei	3
ley	6
lie	3
lip	5
lis	3
lye	6
pes	5
pie	5
pis	5
ply	8
psi	5
pye	8
sei	3
sel	3
sip	5
sis	3
sly	6
spy	8
yep	8
yes	6
yip	8

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ells	4
espy	9
ills	4
illy	7
isle	4
leis	4
less	4
leys	7
lies	4
lily	7
lipe	6
lips	6
lisp	6
lyes	7
lyse	7
pies	6
pile	6
pill	6
pily	9
plie	6
psis	6
pyes	9
seis	4
sell	4
sels	4
seps	6
sill	4
sipe	6
sips	6
slip	6
syli	7
yell	7
yelp	9
yeps	9
yill	7
yipe	9
yips	9

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
isles	5
lisle	5
lisps	7
lyses	8
lysis	8
piles	7
pills	7
plies	7
sells	5
sills	5
silly	8
sipes	7
sises	5
sissy	8
slily	8
slipe	7
slips	7
slype	10
speil	7
spell	7
spiel	7
spies	7
spile	7
spill	7
sylis	8
yells	8
yelps	10
yills	8
yipes	10

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
lisles	6
plisse	8
sepsis	8
slipes	8
slypes	11
speils	8
speiss	8
spells	8
spiels	8
spiles	8
spills	8

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
lipless	9
plisses	9

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
slipless	10

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
syllepsis	14