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Is demotic a Scrabble word?

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

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Is demotic a Scrabble UK word?

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

D2E1M3O1T1I1C3

Is demotic a Words With Friends word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

DEMOTIC,

6-letter words (2 found)

COEDIT,MEDICO,

5-letter words (15 found)

CITED,COMET,COMTE,COTED,DEMIC,DEMIT,DEMOI,DICOT,DOMIC,EDICT,MEDIC,METIC,MOTED,TICED,TIMED,

4-letter words (45 found)

CEDI,CIDE,CITE,CITO,CODE,COED,COID,COIT,COME,COTE,DECO,DEMO,DICE,DICT,DIET,DIME,DITE,DOIT,DOME,DOTE,ECOD,EDIT,EMIC,EMIT,ETIC,ICED,IDEM,ITEM,MICE,MICO,MITE,MODE,MODI,MOIT,MOTE,MOTI,ODIC,OMIT,OTIC,TICE,TIDE,TIED,TIME,TOED,TOME,

3-letter words (35 found)

CID,CIT,COD,COT,DEI,DIE,DIM,DIT,DOC,DOE,DOM,DOT,ECO,EMO,ICE,IDE,MED,MET,MIC,MID,MOC,MOD,MOE,MOI,MOT,ODE,TEC,TED,TIC,TID,TIE,TOC,TOD,TOE,TOM,

2-letter words (19 found)

DE,DI,DO,ED,EM,ET,ID,IO,IT,ME,MI,MO,OD,OE,OI,OM,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 118 words from demotic according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of demotic

demotic

Etymology

First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/

Adjective

demotic (not comparable)

  1. Of or for the common people.
    Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular
    Antonym: formal
  2. Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
    Synonym: enchorial
    Coordinate term: abnormal hieratic
  3. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

Derived terms

  • demoticist

Related terms

  • Demotic Greek
  • demotist

Translations

Noun

demotic (countable and uncountable, plural demotics)

  1. (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
    • 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
      Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

Translations

Further reading

  • demotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “demotic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French démotique.

Adjective

demotic m or n (feminine singular demotică, masculine plural demotici, feminine and neuter plural demotice)

  1. demotic

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org