The word atavistic is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • atavistic adj. (Biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to…
  • atavistic adj. Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
  • atavistic adj. Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.

24 valid words from 3 definitions

ABSENCE AFTER AN BEHAVIOR BIOLOGY DUE EARLIER EXHIBITING GENERATIONS MORE OF ONE OR PRIMITIVE PRIMITIVISM REAPPEARING RECURRENCE RELATING RETURNS THAT THE THROWBACK TO TRAIT

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

AT ATAVIST IS ST TA TAV TI TIC VIS

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

AT CIT CITS IT ITS SI TA VAT

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

ATAVISTICALLY

One anagram minus one (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-A ACTIVIST

Scrabble scoring

  • 14 points.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)
  • No anagrams can be formed with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word and an extra letter.)

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