anastrophe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 10
Definition of anastrophe
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
“Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.”
“[…] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).
Words you can make from anastrophe
200+ playable · top: ANAPHORS (13 pts)
Best play anaphors 13 points8-letter words
11 words7-letter words
59 words- ANAPHOR 12 pts
- HANAPER 12 pts
- HAPTENS 12 pts
- ORPHANS 12 pts
- PANTHER 12 pts
- PHAETON 12 pts
- PHONATE 12 pts
- PHONERS 12 pts
- PHORATE 12 pts
- POTHERS 12 pts
- SAPHENA 12 pts
- SHARPEN 12 pts
- STROPHE 12 pts
- TEASHOP 12 pts
- TEPHRAS 12 pts
- THORPES 12 pts
- THREAPS 12 pts
- ANOTHER 10 pts
- ANTHERS 10 pts
- ANTHROS 10 pts
- EARSHOT 10 pts
- HOARSEN 10 pts
- HORNETS 10 pts
- SENHORA 10 pts
- SHORTEN 10 pts
- THENARS 10 pts
- THRONES 10 pts
- ANAPEST 9 pts
- APNOEAS 9 pts
- ARPENTS 9 pts
- ENTRAPS 9 pts
- ESPARTO 9 pts
- OPERANT 9 pts
- PAESANO 9 pts
- PARENTS 9 pts
- PARTANS 9 pts
- PARTONS 9 pts
- PASTERN 9 pts
- PATRONS 9 pts
- PEASANT 9 pts
- PERSONA 9 pts
- POSTERN 9 pts
- PRONATE 9 pts
- PRONEST 9 pts
- PROTEAN 9 pts
- PROTEAS 9 pts
- SEAPORT 9 pts
- SPARTAN 9 pts
- TARPANS 9 pts
- TARPONS 9 pts
- TEOPANS 9 pts
- TRAPANS 9 pts
- TREPANS 9 pts
- AEROSAT 7 pts
- ATONERS 7 pts
- SANTERA 7 pts
- SANTERO 7 pts
- SENATOR 7 pts
- TREASON 7 pts
6-letter words
129 words- ASHPAN 11 pts
- EPHORS 11 pts
- HAPTEN 11 pts
- HOPERS 11 pts
- ORPHAN 11 pts
- PATHOS 11 pts
- PHAROS 11 pts
- PHASER 11 pts
- PHONER 11 pts
- PHONES 11 pts
- PHRASE 11 pts
- POSHER 11 pts
- POTASH 11 pts
- POTHER 11 pts
- RAPHAE 11 pts
- RAPHES 11 pts
- SERAPH 11 pts
- SHAPEN 11 pts
- SHAPER 11 pts
- SHERPA 11 pts
- SPATHE 11 pts
- TEPHRA 11 pts
- TERAPH 11 pts
- THORPE 11 pts
- THORPS 11 pts
- THREAP 11 pts
- AHORSE 9 pts
- ANTHER 9 pts
- ANTHRO 9 pts
- ARHATS 9 pts
- ASHORE 9 pts
- EARTHS 9 pts
- ETHNOS 9 pts
- HASTEN 9 pts
- HATERS 9 pts
- HEARTS 9 pts
- HERONS 9 pts
- HOARSE 9 pts
- HONERS 9 pts
- HONEST 9 pts
- HORNET 9 pts
- HORSTE 9 pts
- NORTHS 9 pts
- NOSHER 9 pts
- NOTHER 9 pts
- OTHERS 9 pts
- RESHOT 9 pts
- SENHOR 9 pts
- SHORAN 9 pts
- SNATHE 9 pts
- THANES 9 pts
- THENAR 9 pts
- THORNS 9 pts
- THROES 9 pts
- THRONE 9 pts
- APNEAS 8 pts
- APNOEA 8 pts
- APRONS 8 pts
- AREPAS 8 pts
- ARPENS 8 pts
- ARPENT 8 pts
- ENRAPT 8 pts
- ENTRAP 8 pts
- NETOPS 8 pts
- OPERAS 8 pts
- PAEANS 8 pts
- PAEONS 8 pts
- PAESAN 8 pts
- PANTOS 8 pts
- PARENS 8 pts
- PARENT 8 pts
- PAREOS 8 pts
- PARSON 8 pts
- PARTAN 8 pts
- PARTON 8 pts
- PASTER 8 pts
- PASTOR 8 pts
- PATENS 8 pts
- PATERS 8 pts
- PATRON 8 pts
- PERSON 8 pts
- PONTES 8 pts
- POSTER 8 pts
- PRANAS 8 pts
- PRATES 8 pts
- PRESTO 8 pts
- PRONES 8 pts
- PROTEA 8 pts
- REPAST 8 pts
- REPOST 8 pts
- REPOTS 8 pts
- RESPOT 8 pts
- SAPOTA 8 pts
- SAPOTE 8 pts
- SARAPE 8 pts
- SATRAP 8 pts
- SOAPER 8 pts
- SPRENT 8 pts
- STOPER 8 pts
- TAPERS 8 pts
- TARPAN 8 pts
- TARPON 8 pts
- TEOPAN 8 pts
- ANEARS 6 pts
- ANSATE 6 pts
- ANTRES 6 pts
- AORTAE 6 pts
- AORTAS 6 pts
- ARENAS 6 pts
- ARSENO 6 pts
- ASTERN 6 pts
- ATONER 6 pts
- ATONES 6 pts
- NESTOR 6 pts
- NOTERS 6 pts
- OATERS 6 pts
- ORATES 6 pts
- ORNATE 6 pts
- OSETRA 6 pts
- RATANS 6 pts
- REASON 6 pts
- REATAS 6 pts
- SENORA 6 pts
- SONATA 6 pts
- STERNA 6 pts
- STONER 6 pts
- TENORS 6 pts
- TENSOR 6 pts
- TONERS 6 pts
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