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outcry

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Is outcry a Scrabble word?

Yes, outcry is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of outcry?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable, uncountable) A loud cry or uproar.Examples: "His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering."countableuncountable

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.Examples: "The proposal was met with a public outcry."; "The Western Region has sought approval for the withdrawal of passenger services between Ashchurch Junction and Upton-on-Severn. There was a proposal to withdraw the trains as long ago as 1951, but an outcry from Tewkesbury that it would suffer as a tourist centre secured a reprieve."; "This is a scorched earth policy, leaving Labour - which has made the right noises, but not loudly enough - with the job of picking up the pieces. Given the incoherence of the plans, the best hope is that the public outcry - even the Daily Telegraph is against them - delays them enough for a new government to rescue most of the ticket offices from closure, but this is no way to run a railway."countablefigurativelyuncountable

3. (India, archaic, countable, uncountable) An auction.Examples: "to send goods to an outcry"Indiaarchaiccountableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.Examples: "I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed."intransitive

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.Examples: "[…] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […]"; "The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "outcry"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "outcry"?

Scrabble
11 points
O1
U1
T1
C3
R1
Y4
Words With Friends
12 points
O1
U2
T1
C4
R1
Y4

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