Is CONTAINMENT a word?
CONTAINMENT is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words With Friends, has 11 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, CONTAINMENT is a valid word.
What does containment mean?
noun: a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully.
“containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
CONTAINMENT: word details
- Pronunciation: kuhn-TAYN-muhnt (approx., 3 syllables)
- Length: 11 letters, a long word. It is one of 28,045 11-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 15 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 20 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside containment
Words you can make from the letters of containment.
Solve a whole rack, not just CONTAINMENT
CONTAINMENT is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does CONTAINMENT mean?
CONTAINMENT is a noun. It means: a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully.
Is CONTAINMENT a valid word?
Yes, CONTAINMENT is a valid word. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.