outnumber
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 9
/aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/
Definition of outnumber
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(stative, transitive)To be more in number than somebody or something.
“Women outnumbered men by two to one.”
“There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety of duties.”
“Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.”
“When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.”
“The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)#47;15#61;15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.”
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Etymology
From out- + number.
Words you can make from outnumber
198 playable · top: ENTOMB (10 pts)
Best play entomb 10 points7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
15 words5-letter words
40 words- BROME 9 pts
- BRUME 9 pts
- OMBER 9 pts
- OMBRE 9 pts
- UMBER 9 pts
- BENTO 7 pts
- BETON 7 pts
- BONER 7 pts
- BORNE 7 pts
- BOURN 7 pts
- BRENT 7 pts
- BRUNT 7 pts
- BRUTE 7 pts
- BURET 7 pts
- BURNT 7 pts
- BUTEO 7 pts
- ENORM 7 pts
- MENTO 7 pts
- METRO 7 pts
- MONTE 7 pts
- MOUNT 7 pts
- MOURN 7 pts
- MUTER 7 pts
- MUTON 7 pts
- NOTUM 7 pts
- REBUT 7 pts
- RUMEN 7 pts
- TUBER 7 pts
- TUMOR 7 pts
- TURBO 7 pts
- UNMET 7 pts
- NOTER 5 pts
- OUTER 5 pts
- OUTRE 5 pts
- ROUEN 5 pts
- ROUTE 5 pts
- TENOR 5 pts
- TONER 5 pts
- TRONE 5 pts
- TUNER 5 pts
4-letter words
58 words- BERM 8 pts
- NUMB 8 pts
- TOMB 8 pts
- UMBO 8 pts
- BENT 6 pts
- BONE 6 pts
- BORE 6 pts
- BORN 6 pts
- BORT 6 pts
- BOUT 6 pts
- BREN 6 pts
- BRUT 6 pts
- BUNT 6 pts
- BURN 6 pts
- BUTE 6 pts
- EBON 6 pts
- MENO 6 pts
- MENU 6 pts
- MEOU 6 pts
- MORE 6 pts
- MORN 6 pts
- MORT 6 pts
- MOTE 6 pts
- MOUE 6 pts
- MUON 6 pts
- MURE 6 pts
- MUTE 6 pts
- NEUM 6 pts
- NOME 6 pts
- NORM 6 pts
- OMEN 6 pts
- OMER 6 pts
- ROBE 6 pts
- RUBE 6 pts
- TERM 6 pts
- TOME 6 pts
- TREM 6 pts
- TUBE 6 pts
- UNBE 6 pts
- EURO 4 pts
- NOTE 4 pts
- RENO 4 pts
- RENT 4 pts
- ROTE 4 pts
- ROUE 4 pts
- ROUT 4 pts
- RUNE 4 pts
- RUNT 4 pts
- TERN 4 pts
- TONE 4 pts
- TORE 4 pts
- TORN 4 pts
- TOUR 4 pts
- TROU 4 pts
- TRUE 4 pts
- TUNE 4 pts
- TURN 4 pts
- UNTO 4 pts
3-letter words
58 words- BUM 7 pts
- MOB 7 pts
- BEN 5 pts
- BET 5 pts
- BOT 5 pts
- BRO 5 pts
- BUN 5 pts
- BUR 5 pts
- BUT 5 pts
- EMO 5 pts
- EMU 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- MON 5 pts
- MOR 5 pts
- MOT 5 pts
- MUN 5 pts
- MUT 5 pts
- NEB 5 pts
- NOB 5 pts
- NOM 5 pts
- NUB 5 pts
- OBE 5 pts
- ORB 5 pts
- REB 5 pts
- REM 5 pts
- ROB 5 pts
- ROM 5 pts
- RUB 5 pts
- RUM 5 pts
- TOM 5 pts
- TUB 5 pts
- TUM 5 pts
- URB 5 pts
- EON 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- NOR 3 pts
- NOT 3 pts
- NUT 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- ORE 3 pts
- ORT 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- OUT 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- ROE 3 pts
- ROT 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
- RUN 3 pts
- RUT 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TOE 3 pts
- TON 3 pts
- TOR 3 pts
- TUN 3 pts
- URN 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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