inflation
NOUN
/ɪn'fleɪʃən/
9 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH I
inflation is a valid 9-letter word worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
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WORDS WITH FRIENDS
I1N1F4L1A1T1I1O1N1
1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =12 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 24TRIPLE WORD → 36
MEANING
What does inflation mean?
NOUN · 4 SENSES
1
A general and progressive increase in prices.
“in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”
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2
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
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3
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang.
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The act of filling something with air.
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