Definitions For Spoonerism

noun

  • Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
  • A humorous mistake in which a speaker switches the first sounds of two or more words

Is Spoonerisms 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
15
Words with Friends
18

The word Spoonerism is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Spoonerism in a Sentence

  • The spoonerism “tons of soil” for “sons of toil”

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