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Is sinister a Scrabble word?

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

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Is sinister a Scrabble UK word?

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

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8-letter words (2 found)

INSISTER,SINISTER,

7-letter words (5 found)

ESTRINS,INSERTS,SENITIS,SINTERS,STRINES,

6-letter words (32 found)

ESTRIN,INERTS,INSERT,INSETS,INSIST,INTERS,INTIRE,IRISES,NISEIS,NITERS,NITRES,REISTS,RESINS,RESIST,RESITS,RINSES,SEISIN,SENITI,SERINS,SIENTS,SINTER,SIRENS,SISTER,SNIRTS,STEINS,STERNS,STIRES,STRINE,TINIER,TINIES,TRIENS,TRINES,

5-letter words (54 found)

INERT,INSET,INTER,INTIS,ISSEI,NEIST,NERTS,NESTS,NISEI,NISSE,NITER,NITES,NITRE,REINS,REIST,RENTS,RESIN,RESIT,RESTS,RINES,RINSE,RISEN,RISES,RITES,SEIRS,SENSI,SENTI,SENTS,SERIN,SIENS,SIENT,SINES,SIREN,SIRES,SIRIS,SITES,SNIES,SNIRT,SNITS,STEIN,STENS,STERN,STIES,STIRE,STIRS,TEINS,TERNS,TIERS,TINES,TIRES,TRESS,TRIES,TRINE,TRINS,

4-letter words (58 found)

ENTS,ERNS,ERST,ESTS,INTI,IRES,IRIS,ISIT,NESS,NEST,NETS,NIES,NISI,NITE,NITS,REIN,REIS,RENS,RENT,REST,RETS,RINE,RINS,RISE,RITE,RITS,SEIR,SEIS,SENS,SENT,SERS,SETS,SIEN,SIES,SINE,SINS,SIRE,SIRI,SIRS,SIST,SITE,SITS,SNIT,SRIS,STEN,STIE,STIR,TEIN,TENS,TERN,TIER,TIES,TINE,TINS,TIRE,TRES,TRIE,TRIN,

3-letter words (32 found)

ENS,ERN,ERS,ESS,EST,INS,IRE,ITS,NET,NIE,NIS,NIT,REI,REN,RES,RET,RIN,RIT,SEI,SEN,SER,SET,SIN,SIR,SIS,SIT,SRI,TEN,TES,TIE,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (13 found)

EN,ER,ES,ET,IN,IS,IT,NE,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 197 words from sinister according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sinister

sinister

Alternative forms

  • sinistre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪnɪstə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪnɪstɚ/
  • Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden.

Adjective

sinister (comparative more sinister, superlative most sinister)

  1. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
  2. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
  3. (archaic) Of the left side.
    Antonym: dexter
  4. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
    Antonym: dexter
  5. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

Derived terms

Translations

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Anagrams

  • insister, resistin, sinistre

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

sinister (comparative sinisterder, superlative sinisterst)

  1. sinister

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ziˈnɪstɐ/

Adjective

sinister (strong nominative masculine singular sinisterer, comparative sinisterer, superlative am sinistersten)

  1. sinister

Declension

Further reading

  • “sinister” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “sinister” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *senisteros, of unknown origin, but possibly from a euphemism from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Sanskrit सनीयान् (sanīyān, “more useful, more advantageous”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /siˈnis.ter/, [s̠ɪˈnɪs̠t̪ɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈnis.ter/, [siˈnist̪er]

Adjective

sinister (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum, comparative sinistrior, superlative sinistimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. left
    Synonyms: laevus, scaevus
    Antonym: dexter
  2. perverse, bad; or adverse, hostile
    • 1st BC, Virgilius
  3. (religion) auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)
    • 1st BC, Virgilius
    • 2nd century, Apuleius

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Descendants

  • Late Latin: sinexter
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: sinèstro (archaic)
    • North Italian:
      • Friulian: signestri
      • Romansch: sanester, seniester; saniester; schnester
      • Venetian: senestro
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old Catalan: senestre
      • Old French: senestre
        • Middle French: senestre
          • French: senestre, sénestre, senêtre
        • Norman: s'nêtre
      • Occitan: senèstre
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Asturian: siniestru
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: sẽestro, seestro
        • Portuguese: sestro
      • Old Spanish: siniestro
        • Spanish: siniestro
  • → Catalan: sinistre
  • → Dutch: sinister
  • → English: sinister
  • → French: sinistre
  • → Galician: sinistro
  • → Portuguese: sinistro
  • → Romanian: sinistru

References

  • “sinister”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sinister”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Castiglioni-Mariotti, IL

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