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Is cushion a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cushion is a Scrabble US word. The word cushion is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3U1S1H4I1O1N1

Is cushion a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cushion is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3U1S1H4I1O1N1

Is cushion a Words With Friends word?

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

C4U2S1H3I1O1N2

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7-letter words (1 found)

CUSHION,

6-letter words (2 found)

CHINOS,COUSIN,

5-letter words (14 found)

CHINO,CHINS,CHONS,CIONS,COINS,CONUS,CUISH,HOCUS,ICONS,INCUS,ONCUS,SCION,SONIC,UNCOS,

4-letter words (36 found)

CHIN,CHIS,CHON,CHOU,CION,COIN,CONI,CONS,COSH,CUSH,HINS,HISN,HOIS,HONS,HUIC,HUIS,HUNS,HUSO,ICHS,ICON,INCH,IONS,NISH,NOSH,NOUS,ONUS,OUCH,SHIN,SHUN,SICH,SINH,SUCH,SUNI,UNCI,UNCO,UNIS,

3-letter words (39 found)

CHI,CIS,CON,COS,HIC,HIN,HIS,HOC,HOI,HON,HOS,HUI,HUN,ICH,INS,ION,IOS,ISH,ISO,NIS,NOH,NOS,NUS,OCH,OHS,OIS,ONS,OUS,SHO,SIC,SIN,SOC,SOH,SON,SOU,SUI,SUN,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (19 found)

CH,HI,HO,IN,IO,IS,NO,NU,OH,OI,ON,OS,OU,SH,SI,SO,UH,UN,US,

You can make 111 words from cushion according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cushion

cushion

Etymology

From Middle English quysshyn, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) (with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʊʃən/
  • Rhymes: -ʊʃən

Noun

cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)

  1. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
    1. (Commonwealth) A throw pillow.
    2. A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
  2. Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
    1. A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
    2. A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
    4. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
    5. The pillow used in making bone lace.
    6. An engraver's pad.
    7. (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
    8. (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
  3. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
    1. (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
  4. (historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.

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See also

  • pillow
  • squab

Verb

cushion (third-person singular simple present cushions, present participle cushioning, simple past and past participle cushioned)

  1. To furnish with cushions.
    to cushion a sofa
  2. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
  3. To absorb or deaden the impact of.
    to cushion a blow
    • 1903, Edward Porritt, "Poynings' Law", The Unreformed House of Commons Vol.II p.429 (CUP):
      the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant
  4. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Derived terms

  • cushion the blow

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Source: wiktionary.org