Definitions For Hypercatalexi

Noun

HYPERCATALEXIS (uncountable) (poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse

Related terms

acatalectic catalectic

Etymology

Coined in the late 1880s as a {{back-form, en, hypercatalectic, nocap=1}}, from {{uder, en, la, hypercatalēcticus}}, from {{uder, en, grc, ὑπερκαταληκτικός}}, from ὑπερ-, , over + καταληκτικός, , incomplete

Is Hypercatalexis a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
31
Words with Friends
32

The word Hypercatalexi is worth 31 points in Scrabble and 32 points in Words with Friends

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