illness: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 7 letter points · starts with I · ends with S
Meaning of illness
noun
- countable
An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health.
Example: Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
- uncountable
A state of bad health or disease.
Example: Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Listed forms: illnesses.
Source: Wiktionary — illness.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is illness in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of illness
I(1) + L(1) + L(1) + N(1) + E(1) + S(1) + S(1) = 7 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 illness
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from illness
44 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in illness. Showing up to 24, longest first.