deletion

deletion is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
2. noun. the act of deleting something written or printed
3. noun. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

   "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"

   "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

   Synonyms: cut, excision

4. noun. (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
5. noun. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

   Synonyms: omission

Synonyms

cut, excision, omission

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in deletion:

entoiled

Common word forms

deletions

Words from these letters

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