decasyllabic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/dɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk/

Definition of decasyllabic

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having ten syllables.
    “The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing.”
    “The lines are almost uniformly decasyllabic (though the syntax breaks up the iambs early in the sequence), and there are some notable exceptions which mainly cluster toward the end of the final sonnet (one line is a thirteener).”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having ten syllables.
    “The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing.”
    “The lines are almost uniformly decasyllabic (though the syntax breaks up the iambs early in the sequence), and there are some notable exceptions which mainly cluster toward the end of the final sonnet (one line is a thirteener).”
  2. (not-comparable)Composed of decasyllables.

noun

  1. (plural)A decasyllable.
    “an English sonnet written in decasyllabics”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From deca- + syllabic.

Words you can make from decasyllabic

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9-letter words

2 words

8-letter words

28 words

7-letter words

50 words

6-letter words

82 words

5-letter words

37 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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