aberrant
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
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Definition of aberrant
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Differing from the norm.
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adj
- Differing from the norm.
- (figuratively, sometimes)Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
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Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
“The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.”
noun
- A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
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A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
“Also I think other birders realise you are struggling a bit when you start talking about aberrants[.]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Words you can make from aberrant
115 playable · top: ANTBEAR (9 pts)
Best play antbear 9 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
9 words5-letter words
19 words4-letter words
32 words- ABET 6 pts
- BANE 6 pts
- BARE 6 pts
- BARN 6 pts
- BATE 6 pts
- BEAN 6 pts
- BEAR 6 pts
- BEAT 6 pts
- BENT 6 pts
- BETA 6 pts
- BRAE 6 pts
- BRAN 6 pts
- BRAT 6 pts
- BREN 6 pts
- NABE 6 pts
- ANTA 4 pts
- ANTE 4 pts
- AREA 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- ETNA 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- NEAT 4 pts
- RANT 4 pts
- RARE 4 pts
- RATE 4 pts
- REAR 4 pts
- RENT 4 pts
- TARE 4 pts
- TARN 4 pts
- TEAR 4 pts
- TERN 4 pts
3-letter words
37 words- ABA 5 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- BAA 5 pts
- BAE 5 pts
- BAN 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BAT 5 pts
- BEN 5 pts
- BET 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- BRR 5 pts
- NAB 5 pts
- NEB 5 pts
- REB 5 pts
- TAB 5 pts
- ANA 3 pts
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- ANT 3 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ART 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- ERR 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- RAN 3 pts
- RAT 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAN 3 pts
- TAR 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
2-letter words
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