hendiadys
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Is hendiadys a Scrabble word?
✓Yes, hendiadys is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 17 points in Scrabble.
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of hendiadys?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.Examples: "Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain."; "Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English."rhetoric
Definition source: Wiktionary
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "hendiadys"?
How many Scrabble points is the word "hendiadys"?
H4
E1
N1
D2
I1
A1
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Y4
S1
H3
E1
N2
D2
I1
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