tetris
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Is tetris a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of tetris?
Definition
name (English)
1. (figuratively) An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space.Examples: "Then I looked at the furniture. It was all a bit unimaginative, so I rearranged everything at a jaunty angle. When I returned to the cellar I was still playing Tetris with the cooker in my head."; "While I worked out a Tetris-like arrangement to get all of the leftovers into the oven, Phil's curiosity got the better of him."; "When people spoke to me, the sounds of their words were Tetris shapes, falling. All I had to do was put each one in its bright, satisfying place."figuratively
noun (English)
1. (video games, by extension) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.Examples: "For some it's staying low on the play field, steadily advancing through the levels, for others its ^([sic]) trying to clear the board entirely or scoring an unprecedented number of tetrises."; "See figure 3 for an example of a logical decision tree that indicates whether there is a possibility to score a tetris."; "Maximizing the number of tetrises (the number of times that four rows are cleared in a Tetris game) is NP-complete."broadly
Definition source: Wiktionary