The word climax 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.)

  • climax n. (Originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
  • climax n. (Obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.
  • climax n. (Narratology) The culmination of a narrative’s rising action, the turning point.

24 valid words from 3 definitions

ACTION AN ARRANGED ASCENDING CULMINATION DEVICE IN INSTANCE IS NARRATIVE NARRATOLOGY OBSOLETE OF ORDER ORIGINALLY POINT RHETORIC RHETORICAL RISING SERIES SUCH THE TURNING WHICH

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

AX LI LIMA LIMAX MA MAX

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

AM AMI MI MIL

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

LIMAX

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

CLIMAXED CLIMAXES CLIMAXING CLIMAXLESS

4 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

DISCLIMAXES SUBCLIMAXES ANTICLIMAXES PLAGIOCLIMAXES

4 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

DISCLIMAX SUBCLIMAX ANTICLIMAX PLAGIOCLIMAX

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

+E EXCLAIM

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

-C LIMAX
-M CALIX
-X CLAIM MALIC

Scrabble scoring

  • 17 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 16011 chance (0.01%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 131399 chance.

Other languages

  • Valid: French Spanish Italian Romanian
  • Invalid: German
  • (In French) CLIMAX n.m. Point culminant d’une progression.
  • (In Spanish) CLÍMAX m. Gradación retórica ascendente.
  • (In Spanish) CLÍMAX f. Ecol. Estado óptimo de una comunidad biológica, dadas las condiciones del ambiente.

Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one 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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