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Is erosion a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word erosion is a Scrabble US word. The word erosion is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is erosion a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word erosion is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Is erosion a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word erosion is a Words With Friends word. The word erosion is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

EROSION,

6-letter words (10 found)

IRONES,NOOSER,NOSIER,OOSIER,ORISON,RONEOS,SENIOR,SEROON,SONERI,SOONER,

5-letter words (29 found)

EOSIN,IRONE,IRONS,NOIRS,NOISE,NOOSE,NORIS,NOSER,ONERS,OORIE,ORNIS,OSIER,REINS,RENOS,RESIN,RINES,RINSE,RISEN,ROINS,RONEO,RONES,ROONS,ROOSE,ROSIN,SENOR,SERIN,SERON,SIREN,SNORE,

4-letter words (42 found)

EONS,ERNS,EROS,INRO,IONS,IRES,IRON,NIES,NOES,NOIR,NORI,NOSE,ONER,ONES,ONIE,ONOS,OONS,OOSE,ORES,REIN,REIS,RENO,RENS,REOS,RINE,RINS,RISE,ROES,ROIN,RONE,ROON,ROOS,ROSE,SEIR,SIEN,SINE,SIRE,SONE,SOON,SORE,SORI,SORN,

3-letter words (39 found)

ENS,EON,ERN,ERS,INS,ION,IOS,IRE,ISO,NIE,NIS,NOO,NOR,NOS,OES,OIS,ONE,ONO,ONS,OON,OOR,OOS,ORE,ORS,OSE,REI,REN,REO,RES,RIN,ROE,ROO,SEI,SEN,SER,SIN,SIR,SON,SRI,

2-letter words (17 found)

EN,ER,ES,IN,IO,IS,NE,NO,OE,OI,ON,OO,OR,OS,RE,SI,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 139 words from erosion according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of erosion

erosion

Etymology

From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.

The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote

"Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɹoʊʒən/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɹəʊʒən/

Noun

erosion (countable and uncountable, plural erosions)

  1. (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
    • 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four:
      Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
      Dougal: Erosion.
  2. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
  3. (uncountable, figurative) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
    the erosion of a person's trust
    trademark erosion, caused by everyday use of the trademarked term
  4. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
  5. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
  6. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
  7. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
  8. (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).

Derived terms

Related terms

  • erode

Translations

Anagrams

  • Reinoso

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɾos̺ion/ [e.ɾo.s̺i.õn]
  • Rhymes: -ion
  • Hyphenation: e‧ro‧si‧on

Verb

erosion

  1. Informal second-person singular feminine (hik), taking third-person singular (hari) as indirect object and third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present imperative form of erosi (“to buy”).

Friulian

Noun

erosion f (plural erosions)

  1. erosion

Interlingua

Noun

erosion (plural erosiones)

  1. erosion (shallow lesion or ulceration)

Source: wiktionary.org