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Is clipping a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clipping is a Scrabble US word. The word clipping is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

C3L1I1P3P3I1N1G2

Is clipping a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clipping is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

C3L1I1P3P3I1N1G2

Is clipping a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word clipping is a Words With Friends word. The word clipping is worth 21 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4L2I1P4P4I1N2G3

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8-letter words (1 found)

CLIPPING,

7-letter words (2 found)

CLIPING,LIPPING,

6-letter words (3 found)

INCLIP,PILING,PIPING,

5-letter words (6 found)

CIPPI,CLING,ICING,LIPIN,PIING,PLING,

4-letter words (5 found)

CLIP,LING,PILI,PING,PIPI,

3-letter words (13 found)

CIG,GIN,GIP,ING,LIG,LIN,LIP,NIL,NIP,PIC,PIG,PIN,PIP,

2-letter words (4 found)

GI,IN,LI,PI,

You can make 34 words from clipping according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clipping

clipping

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɪpɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: clip‧ping

Verb

clipping

  1. present participle and gerund of clip

Noun

clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)

  2. The act by which something is clipped (in any sense).
  4. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
    Synonyms: offcut, snippet
  6. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.
    Synonym: cutting
  8. (uncountable, linguistics) A process of word formation involving shortening by removal of syllables, often terminal ones.
    Hyponyms: apheresis, apocope, procope, syncope, truncation
  10. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
    Synonym: short form
    Hyponym: apocopation
  12. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
  14. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
  16. (uncountable, American football, Canadian football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.

Hyponyms

  • (linguistics): apheresis (initial clipping); syncope (medial clipping); apocope (final clipping), acronymy (another type of shortening)

Translations

See also

  • Wiktionary's coverage of clippings by language
  • (short form of a word): metaplasm, aphaeresis, procope, syncope, apocope

Adjective

clipping (not comparable)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Excellent; very good.

Further reading

  • clipping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • clipping (morphology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • clipping (phonetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • clipping (signal processing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • clipping (computer graphics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • clipping (gridiron football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org