lowercase
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 9
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Definition of lowercase
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of lower case.
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noun
- (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of lower case.
adj
- (not-comparable)In lower case.
verb
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(transitive)To convert (text) to lower case.
“Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)”
“I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Words you can make from lowercase
200+ playable · top: CLAWERS (12 pts)
Best play clawers 12 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
15 words6-letter words
48 words- CLAWER 11 pts
- COWERS 11 pts
- CRAWLS 11 pts
- CREWEL 11 pts
- ESCROW 11 pts
- SCRAWL 11 pts
- SOWCAR 11 pts
- LOWERS 9 pts
- ROWELS 9 pts
- SLOWER 9 pts
- SWOLER 9 pts
- WALERS 9 pts
- WARSLE 9 pts
- WEASEL 9 pts
- CARLES 8 pts
- CAROLS 8 pts
- CEORLS 8 pts
- CEREAL 8 pts
- CLAROS 8 pts
- CLEARS 8 pts
- CLOSER 8 pts
- COALER 8 pts
- COARSE 8 pts
- CORALS 8 pts
- CREASE 8 pts
- CREELS 8 pts
- CREOLE 8 pts
- CRESOL 8 pts
- ECLOSE 8 pts
- LACERS 8 pts
- OCREAE 8 pts
- OCREAS 8 pts
- ORACLE 8 pts
- RECOAL 8 pts
- RELACE 8 pts
- ROSACE 8 pts
- SCALER 8 pts
- SCLERA 8 pts
- SOLACE 8 pts
- AREOLE 6 pts
- LAREES 6 pts
- LEASER 6 pts
- REALES 6 pts
- RESALE 6 pts
- RESEAL 6 pts
- RESOLE 6 pts
- SEALER 6 pts
- SOLERA 6 pts
5-letter words
99 words- CLAWS 10 pts
- CLEWS 10 pts
- COWER 10 pts
- COWLS 10 pts
- CRAWL 10 pts
- CRAWS 10 pts
- CREWS 10 pts
- CROWS 10 pts
- SCOWL 10 pts
- SCREW 10 pts
- AWOLS 8 pts
- EWERS 8 pts
- LOWER 8 pts
- LOWES 8 pts
- LOWSE 8 pts
- RESAW 8 pts
- RESEW 8 pts
- RESOW 8 pts
- ROWEL 8 pts
- SAWER 8 pts
- SEROW 8 pts
- SEWAR 8 pts
- SEWER 8 pts
- SOWAR 8 pts
- SOWER 8 pts
- SWALE 8 pts
- SWARE 8 pts
- SWEAR 8 pts
- SWEER 8 pts
- SWOLE 8 pts
- SWORE 8 pts
- WALER 8 pts
- WALES 8 pts
- WARES 8 pts
- WEALS 8 pts
- WEARS 8 pts
- WORSE 8 pts
- ACRES 7 pts
- ACROS 7 pts
- ALECS 7 pts
- CALOS 7 pts
- CARES 7 pts
- CARLE 7 pts
- CARLS 7 pts
- CAROL 7 pts
- CARSE 7 pts
- CEASE 7 pts
- CEORL 7 pts
- CERES 7 pts
- CEROS 7 pts
- CLARO 7 pts
- CLEAR 7 pts
- CLOSE 7 pts
- COALS 7 pts
- COLAS 7 pts
- COLES 7 pts
- CORAL 7 pts
- CORES 7 pts
- CORSE 7 pts
- CREEL 7 pts
- ESCAR 7 pts
- LACER 7 pts
- LACES 7 pts
- OCREA 7 pts
- ORCAS 7 pts
- OSCAR 7 pts
- RACES 7 pts
- SCALE 7 pts
- SCARE 7 pts
- SCORE 7 pts
- SCREE 7 pts
- SERAC 7 pts
- SOCLE 7 pts
- ALOES 5 pts
- ARLES 5 pts
- AROSE 5 pts
- EARLS 5 pts
- EASEL 5 pts
- EASER 5 pts
- ERASE 5 pts
- EROSE 5 pts
- LAREE 5 pts
- LARES 5 pts
- LASER 5 pts
- LEARS 5 pts
- LEASE 5 pts
- LEERS 5 pts
- LORES 5 pts
- LOSER 5 pts
- ORALS 5 pts
- ORLES 5 pts
- RALES 5 pts
- REALS 5 pts
- REELS 5 pts
- ROLES 5 pts
- SAREE 5 pts
- SERAL 5 pts
- SOLAR 5 pts
- SOREL 5 pts
4-letter words
36 words- CAWS 9 pts
- CLAW 9 pts
- CLEW 9 pts
- ALOW 7 pts
- AWEE 7 pts
- AWES 7 pts
- AWLS 7 pts
- AWOL 7 pts
- ACES 6 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ACRO 6 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- ARCO 6 pts
- ARCS 6 pts
- CALO 6 pts
- CALS 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CARL 6 pts
- CARS 6 pts
- CASE 6 pts
- CEES 6 pts
- CELS 6 pts
- CERE 6 pts
- CERO 6 pts
- COAL 6 pts
- COLA 6 pts
- COLE 6 pts
- COLS 6 pts
- AERO 4 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
- ALES 4 pts
- ALOE 4 pts
- ALSO 4 pts
- ARES 4 pts
- AROS 4 pts
- ARSE 4 pts
Hooks
2 extensions · 2 back
A single letter you can add to lowercase to make another valid word.
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