acrostic
Meanings
Plural: acrostics
Noun
- a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
Adj
- Of or pertaining to acrostics.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), from ἄκρο- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to climb, go”)).
Synonyms
word square
Scrabble Score: 12
acrostic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordacrostic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acrostic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
acrostic is a valid Words With Friends word