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Is portion a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word portion is a Scrabble US word. The word portion is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is portion a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word portion is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

P3O1R1T1I1O1N1

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

PORTION,

6-letter words (6 found)

OPTION,POTION,PRONTO,PROTON,ROOPIT,TROPIN,

5-letter words (20 found)

INTRO,NITRO,NOOIT,ORPIN,PINOT,PINTO,PITON,POINT,POORI,POORT,PORIN,PORNO,POTIN,PRINT,PRION,PROIN,PROTO,ROTON,TOPOI,TROOP,

4-letter words (40 found)

INRO,INTO,IRON,NOIR,NOOP,NORI,OINT,ONTO,OONT,PINT,PION,PIRN,PONT,POON,POOR,POOT,PORN,PORT,PROO,RIOT,RIPT,ROIN,RONT,ROON,ROOP,ROOT,ROTI,ROTO,TIRO,TOON,TOPI,TOPO,TORI,TORN,TORO,TRIN,TRIO,TRIP,TRON,TROP,

3-letter words (31 found)

ION,NIP,NIT,NOO,NOR,NOT,ONO,OON,OOP,OOR,OOT,OPT,ORT,PIN,PIR,PIT,POI,POO,POT,PRO,RIN,RIP,RIT,ROO,ROT,TIN,TIP,TON,TOO,TOP,TOR,

2-letter words (13 found)

IN,IO,IT,NO,OI,ON,OO,OP,OR,PI,PO,TI,TO,

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

Definitions and meaning of portion

portion

Etymology

From Middle English porcioun, borrowed from Old French porcion, from Latin portio (“a share, part, portion, relation, proportion”), akin to pars (“part”); see part. Compare proportion.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɹʃən/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɔːʃən/
  • (Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈpoəɹʃən/, /ˈpoːɹʃən/, /ˈpoɹʃən/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən

Noun

portion (plural portions)

  1. An allocated amount.
  3. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  4. One's fate; lot.
  5. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  6. A wife's fortune; a dowry.

Usage notes

Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).

Synonyms

  • part
  • piece

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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Verb

portion (third-person singular simple present portions, present participle portioning, simple past and past participle portioned)

  1. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  2. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Usage notes

  • Particularly used as portion out.
  • Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.

Synonyms

  • apportion
  • divide, divide up
  • divvy, divvy up

Derived terms

  • portion off
  • portion out

Translations

Further reading

  • “portion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “portion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portionem (accusative singular of portio).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ.sjɔ̃/

Noun

portion f (plural portions)

  1. portion

Derived terms

  • portion congrue

Descendants

  • → Turkish: porsiyon

Further reading

  • “portion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • potiron

Interlingua

Noun

portion (plural portiones)

  1. portion

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

portion c

  1. serving, an helping of food

Declension

Related terms

  • portionera

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English porcioun, from Old French porcion, from Latin portio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔːˈʃuːn/

Noun

portion

  1. part
  2. dowry

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 102
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20050222031415/http://homepage.tinet.ie/~taghmon/histsoc/vol3/chapter4/chapter4.htm

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