The word oxymoron 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.)

  • oxymoron n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together…
  • oxymoron n. (Loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms.
  • (In German) Oxymoron S. Literaturwissenschaft, Rhetorik: sprachliche Konstruktion…

21 valid words from 3 definitions

ARE CONTRADICTION FIGURE IN LOOSELY MEANINGS OF OPPOSING OR PHRASES PROSCRIBED RHETORIC SOMETIMES SPEECH TERMS TOGETHER TWO USED WHICH WITH WORDS

4 invalid words from 3 definitions

KONSTRUKTION LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT RHETORIK SPRACHLICHE

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

MO MOR MORON ON OR OX OXY

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

MY MYXO NO NOR OM OR ROM

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

OXYMORONS OXYMORONIC OXYMORONICALLY

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

+S OXYMORONS

Scrabble scoring

  • 20 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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