tennis: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 6 letter points · starts with T · ends with S
Meaning of tennis
noun
- uncountable, usually
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- dated, uncountable, usually
A match in this sport.
- obsolete, uncountable, usually
An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
Listed forms: tennises.
Source: Wiktionary — tennis.
verb
- transitive
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- dated, intransitive
To play tennis.
Listed forms: tennises, tennising, tennised.
Source: Wiktionary — tennis.
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
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
- lawn tennis
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is tennis in our word lists?
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Letter-value score of tennis
T(1) + E(1) + N(1) + N(1) + I(1) + S(1) = 6 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 tennis
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from tennis
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