d 2 e 1 l 1 e 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1
8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
noun (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
noun the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
originEtymology tree Latin dēleō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dēlētiōnem English deletion From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- eloined 8
- lenited 8
- lentoid 8
- denote 7
- dentil 7
- ditone 7
- dolent 7
- eident 7
- endite 7
- indole 7
- linted 7
- toiled 7