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metathesis

metathesis is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.

  2. 2noun

    A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.

  3. 3noun

    The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

  4. 4noun

    a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)

  5. 5noun

    a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence

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