suppletion

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/səˈpliːʃən/

Definition of suppletion

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The supplying of something lacking.
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The supplying of something lacking.
  2. (uncountable, usually)The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.
  3. (uncountable, usually)More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives.

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Etymology

From German Suppletivwesen, from Latin supplēre (“to supply”), perfect stem supplet-, + -ion.

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8-letter words

11 words

7-letter words

60 words

6-letter words

121 words

5-letter words

7 words

Hooks

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