acrostic

acrostic is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
2. noun. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
3. noun. Alt. of Acrostical
4. noun. verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
5. noun. a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in acrostic:

sarcotic, socratic

Common word forms

acrostics, acrostical

Words from these letters

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