The word gridlock 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.)

  • gridlock n. A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city…
  • gridlock n. On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during…
  • gridlock n. (Figuratively, by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.

38 valid words from 3 definitions

ANY BY CARS CITY COMPLEX CONDITION CONFLICT CONGESTION CONTROLLED CROWDED DEADLOCK DUE DURING ENTER EXTENSION FIGURATIVELY HIGHWAYS IN INTERLOCKING INTERSECTION LATE OF ON OR PARALYSIS SCALE SEVERE SIGNAL SITUATION SMALLER STREETS SYSTEM THE TO TOO TOTAL TRAFFIC WHICH

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

GRID ID LO LOCK RID

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

COL COLD DI OLD

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

GRIDLOCKS GRIDLOCKED GRIDLOCKING

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

+B GOLDBRICK
+S GRIDLOCKS

Scrabble scoring

  • 16 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 by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a 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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