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Is subsume a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word subsume is a Scrabble US word. The word subsume is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

S1U1B3S1U1M3E1

Is subsume a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word subsume is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

S1U1B3S1U1M3E1

Is subsume a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word subsume is a Words With Friends word. The word subsume is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1U2B4S1U2M4E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

SUBSUME,

6-letter words (1 found)

SEBUMS,

5-letter words (6 found)

BUSES,BUSSU,EMBUS,MUSES,MUSSE,SEBUM,

4-letter words (14 found)

BUMS,BUSS,EMUS,MESS,MEUS,MUSE,MUSS,SUBS,SUES,SUMS,SUSU,UMES,UMUS,USES,

3-letter words (17 found)

BES,BUM,BUS,EMS,EMU,ESS,MES,MEU,MUS,SUB,SUE,SUM,SUS,UME,UMS,UMU,USE,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,EM,ES,ME,MU,UM,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from subsume according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of subsume

subsume

Etymology

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-”) and sūmō (“to take”), cf. the English consume.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səbˈsjuːm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /səbˈsuːm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Verb

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

  1. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
    • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
      A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.
    • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.
      no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
  2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

  • subsumation
  • subsumption

Translations

French

Verb

subsume

  1. inflection of subsumer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

subsume

  1. inflection of subsumir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org