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Is lenition a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lenition is a Scrabble US word. The word lenition is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

L1E1N1I1T1I1O1N1

Is lenition a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lenition is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

L1E1N1I1T1I1O1N1

Is lenition a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word lenition is a Words With Friends word. The word lenition is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

L2E1N2I1T1I1O1N2

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8-letter words (1 found)

LENITION,

7-letter words (2 found)

ETIOLIN,NITINOL,

6-letter words (9 found)

ENTOIL,INTINE,INTONE,IOLITE,LINNET,LINTIE,LIONET,ONLINE,TINNIE,

5-letter words (22 found)

ELINT,ELOIN,ENLIT,INION,INLET,INNIT,INTEL,INTIL,LENTI,LENTO,LINEN,LININ,NITON,NOINT,NONET,OLEIN,OLENT,TELOI,TENNO,TENON,TOILE,TONNE,

4-letter words (34 found)

ENOL,INTI,INTO,LENO,LENT,LIEN,LINE,LINN,LINO,LINT,LION,LITE,LOIN,LONE,LOTE,LOTI,NEON,NINE,NITE,NOEL,NOIL,NOLE,NONE,NONI,NOTE,OINT,ONIE,TEIL,TEIN,TILE,TINE,TOIL,TOLE,TONE,

3-letter words (26 found)

ELT,EON,INN,ION,LEI,LET,LIE,LIN,LIT,LOT,NET,NIE,NIL,NIT,NON,NOT,OIL,OLE,ONE,TEL,TEN,TIE,TIL,TIN,TOE,TON,

2-letter words (16 found)

EL,EN,ET,IN,IO,IT,LI,LO,NE,NO,OE,OI,ON,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of lenition

lenition

Etymology

Analyzable as lenis +‎ -ition, or as if from Latin lēnīt(us) + -ion, or Latin lēnītiō (“softening”) from lēniō (“soften”) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix) (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging"). Modelled on German Lenierung.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɪˈnɪʃən/, /liːˈnɪʃən/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ləˈnɪʃən/, /liˈnɪʃən/

Noun

lenition (countable and uncountable, plural lenitions)

  1. (phonetics, phonology) A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
    Antonym: fortition
    Coordinate term: assimilation
    • 2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, Celtic, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), Lenition and Fortition, Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347,
      As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.
    • 2011, Naomi Gurevich, 66: Lenition, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573,
      Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.

Derived terms

  • lenite

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Further reading

  • lenition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org