attention: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 9 letter points · starts with A · ends with N
Meaning of attention
noun
- uncountable
Mental focus.
Example: Please direct your attention to the following words.
- countable
An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- uncountable
A state of alertness in the standing position.
Example: The company will now come to attention.
- uncountable
A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.
Listed forms: attentions.
Source: Wiktionary — attention.
intj
Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
Source: Wiktionary — attention.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for attention.
noun
the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
noun
the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is attention in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of attention
A(1) + T(1) + T(1) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) + I(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of attention
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from attention
96 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in attention. Showing up to 24, longest first.