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— English words —

• metathesis n. (Phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
• metathesis n. (Inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
• metathesis n. (Organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.

— English word, defined in French —

• metathesis n. (Linguistique) Métathèse.

— In Dutch —

• metathesis n. (Taalkunde) is een fonologisch proces waarbij er transpositie…

33 English words from 3 English definitions

and are as␣in ask bonds breaking chemistry decomposition double double␣bonds double␣decomposition groups inorganic Inorganic␣chemistry letters olefins Organic Organic␣chemistry Phonetics prosody reforming salts sounds substituent such such␣as swapped syllables The transposition which within word

1 English word from 2 foreign definitions

een

7 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

fonologisch Linguistique Métathèse proces Taalkunde transpositie waarbij

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

metathesise metathesised metathesises metathesising

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

antimetathesis selfmetathesis self-metathesis crossmetathesis olefin␣metathesis

28 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ATH ESI -esis eta ETA hes Hes he's met Met MET met- met. meta Meta META meta- sis SIs SIS -sis tat Tat TAT tath the the- thesis

23 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ate Até Atë -ate Atem ATEM Ise ISE -ise I'se SEH sis SIs SIS -sis sise tat Tat TAT tate Tate Tatem TEM

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

thematises

6 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Matthiesens Matthiessen metathesise pass␣the␣time semiatheist semihastate

12 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

athetesis athetises estimates hatesites hematites hesitates Matheises metasites semistate semi-state steamiest thematise

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

metatheses

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