1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Caption in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does caption mean? Is caption a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is caption worth? caption how many points in Words With Friends? What does caption mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for caption

See how to calculate how many points for caption.

Is caption a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word caption is a Scrabble US word. The word caption is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

C3A1P3T1I1O1N1

Is caption a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word caption is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3A1P3T1I1O1N1

Is caption a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word caption is a Words With Friends word. The word caption is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4A1P4T1I1O1N2

Our tools

Valid words made from Caption

Jump to...

Results

7-letter words (2 found)

CAPTION,PACTION,

6-letter words (7 found)

ACTION,ATONIC,ATOPIC,CATION,CATNIP,COPITA,PONTIC,

5-letter words (29 found)

ACTIN,ACTON,ANTIC,CANTO,CAPON,CAPOT,COAPT,COATI,CONIA,COTAN,INAPT,OCTAN,ONTIC,OPTIC,PAINT,PANIC,PANTO,PATIN,PATIO,PIANO,PICOT,PINOT,PINTA,PINTO,PITON,POINT,POTIN,TONIC,TOPIC,

4-letter words (39 found)

ANTI,ATOC,ATOP,CAIN,CANT,CAPI,CAPO,CIAO,CION,CITO,COAT,COIN,COIT,CONI,ICON,INTO,IOTA,NAOI,NIPA,NOTA,OCTA,OINT,OTIC,PACO,PACT,PAIN,PANT,PIAN,PICA,PINA,PINT,PION,PITA,PONT,TACO,TAIN,TIAN,TINA,TOPI,

3-letter words (45 found)

ACT,AIN,AIT,ANI,ANT,APO,APT,CAN,CAP,CAT,CIT,CON,COP,COT,ION,ITA,NAP,NAT,NIP,NIT,NOT,OAT,OCA,OPA,OPT,PAC,PAN,PAT,PIA,PIC,PIN,PIT,POA,POI,POT,TAI,TAN,TAO,TAP,TIC,TIN,TIP,TOC,TON,TOP,

2-letter words (17 found)

AI,AN,AT,IN,IO,IT,NA,NO,OI,ON,OP,PA,PI,PO,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 139 words from caption according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of caption

caption

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæp.ʃən/

Noun

caption (plural captions)

  1. (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
  2. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
  3. (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
    • (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
  4. (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
  5. (obsolete, law) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
    • 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
      The caption and asportation must be felonious.

Usage notes

In live or recorded audiovisual performance, captions is an umbrella term for closed captions (abbreviated CC) and open captions. Closed captions are visible only to the intended users: on television, via a decoding device, setting, or software; in cinema or performance venues, via a captioning device provided at certain seats or visible using special glasses. Open captions are visible to everyone watching—in many opera houses, for example, there are surtitles (also called supertitles) projected above the stage or on devices at each seat showing the libretto, often translated into the local language. Some countries require educational or government/public-service television programs to be open-captioned for the benefit of the deaf, hard of hearing, developmentally disabled, or people learning the local language.

In film and video, captions may transcribe or describe all dialogue and significant sounds for viewers who cannot hear it, while subtitles translate foreign-language dialogue. This distinction is sometimes made using the term subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), which corresponds to (closed/open) captions, while the general term subtitles is reserved for onscreen transcription intended for the use of a hearing audience. For instance, SDH or captions may include annotations such as (sirens) (to describe a sound) or (angrily) (to describe a tone of voice), where subtitles do not, on the assumption that the subtitle users can hear the sound or tone of voice.

Derived terms

  • captionable, captioned, captioner, captioning
  • (film, television) closed caption, closed-caption, closed captions, closed captioned, closed-captioned, close captioned, close-captioned, closed captioning, closed-captioning
  • (film, television) open caption, open-caption, open captions
  • (film, television) real time caption, real-time caption, real time captioning, real-time captioning

Related terms

  • captious
  • captivate
  • captive
  • capture
  • subtitle
  • supertitle
  • surtitle

Translations

Verb

caption (third-person singular simple present captions, present participle captioning, simple past and past participle captioned)

  1. To add captions to a text or illustration.
    Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
  2. To add captions to a film or broadcast.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Pontiac, anticop, paction

Source: wiktionary.org