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Yes. The word compassion is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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10-letter words (1 found)

COMPASSION,

8-letter words (3 found)

CAMPIONS,MOCASSIN,POCOSINS,

7-letter words (28 found)

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6-letter words (57 found)

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5-letter words (116 found)

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4-letter words (149 found)

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3-letter words (90 found)

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2-letter words (23 found)

AI,AM,AN,AS,IN,IO,IS,MA,MI,MO,NA,NO,OI,OM,ON,OO,OP,OS,PA,PI,PO,SI,SO,

You can make 467 words from compassion according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of compassion

compassion

Etymology

From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/
  • Rhymes: -æʃən

Noun

compassion (usually uncountable, plural compassions)

  1. Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.
    • 1849, Robert Leighton (Archbishop of Glasgow), A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of St. Peter (page 47)
      Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.

Synonyms

  • (deep awareness of another's suffering): empathy, mercy, ruth, pity, sorrow, tenderheartedness
  • (desire to relieve another's suffering): kindness, heart, mercy, ruth, tenderheartedness

Derived terms

  • compassionable
  • compassionate
  • compassion fatigue

Related terms

  • compatible
  • passion

Translations

Verb

compassion (third-person singular simple present compassions, present participle compassioning, simple past and past participle compassioned)

  1. (obsolete) To pity.

Further reading

  • “compassion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “compassion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin compassiō, from Latin compatior (“to suffer with”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/, /kɔ̃.pɑ.sjɔ̃/

Noun

compassion f (plural compassions)

  1. compassion, pity

Related terms

  • compatir
  • passion

Further reading

  • “compassion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

compassion

  1. Alternative form of compassioun

Source: wiktionary.org