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Is defunct a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word defunct is a Scrabble US word. The word defunct is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

D2E1F4U1N1C3T1

Is defunct a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word defunct is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

D2E1F4U1N1C3T1

Is defunct a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word defunct is a Words With Friends word. The word defunct is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2E1F4U2N2C4T1

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7-letter words (1 found)

DEFUNCT,

6-letter words (1 found)

FECUND,

5-letter words (6 found)

CENTU,DUNCE,EDUCT,TENDU,TUNED,UNFED,

4-letter words (22 found)

CENT,CUED,CUNT,CUTE,DEFT,DENT,DUCE,DUCT,DUET,DUNE,DUNT,ENUF,FEND,FENT,FEUD,FUND,NUDE,TEND,TUND,TUNE,UNCE,UNDE,

3-letter words (26 found)

CUD,CUE,CUT,DEF,DEN,DUE,DUN,ECU,EFT,END,FED,FEN,FET,FEU,FUD,FUN,NED,NEF,NET,NUT,TEC,TED,TEF,TEN,TUN,UTE,

2-letter words (12 found)

DE,ED,EF,EN,ET,FE,FU,NE,NU,TE,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 69 words from defunct according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of defunct

defunct

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
  • (US) also IPA(key): /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋkt

Adjective

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

  1. (now rare) Deceased, dead.
  2. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
    1. (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
  3. (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
  4. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

Synonyms

  • (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Translations

Verb

defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)

  1. To make defunct.

Noun

defunct

  1. The dead person (referred to).
    • 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:
      […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]

Related terms

  • function
  • bankrupt

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French défunt.

Noun

defunct m (plural defuncți)

  1. deceased

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org