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Is syntax a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word syntax is a Scrabble US word. The word syntax is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is syntax a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word syntax is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

SYNTAX,

5-letter words (3 found)

ANTSY,NASTY,TANSY,

4-letter words (9 found)

ANTS,NATS,NAYS,NYAS,SANT,STAY,TANS,TAYS,XYST,

3-letter words (21 found)

ANS,ANT,ANY,ATS,AYS,NAS,NAT,NAY,NYS,SAN,SAT,SAX,SAY,SNY,STY,SYN,TAN,TAS,TAX,TAY,YAS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AN,AS,AT,AX,AY,NA,NY,ST,TA,YA,

You can make 44 words from syntax according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of syntax

syntax

Etymology

Borrowed from French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “I arrange”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.tæks/
  • Homophone: sin tax

Noun

syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)

  1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
  2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
  3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

Usage notes

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.).

Synonyms

  • (grammar): syntaxis

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See also

  • word order

See also

  • grammar
  • morphology

Czech

Noun

syntax f

  1. (linguistics, computing) syntax
    Synonym: syntaxe f

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsin.taks/

Noun

syntax f (genitive singular syntaxe, nominative plural syntaxe, genitive plural syntaxí, declension pattern of dlaň)

  1. syntax (linguistics)

Declension

Derived terms

  • syntaktický
  • syntakticky

Further reading

  • “syntax”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Noun

syntax c

  1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

References

  • syntax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org