The word catachresis is a valid scrabble word

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

  • catachresis n. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
  • catachresis n. (Rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied…

23 valid words from 2 definitions

AN ANALOGICAL APPLICATION APPLIED DENOTE DESCRIPTION DOES FIGURATIVE IT MISAPPLICATION MISUSE NOT OF OR OVEREXTENSION PROPERLY RHETORIC SOMETHING TERM TO WHICH WORD WRONGLY

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

ACH AT CAT CH ES IS RE RES SI SIS TA TACH

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

AT CAT ER IS SER SI SIS TA

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

CATACHRESES

3 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-A SCRATCHIES
-C CATHARISES
-T SACCHARISE

Scrabble scoring

  • 18 points.

Other languages

Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)
  • 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.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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