pattern

NOUNVERB /pætərn/
7 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH P

pattern is a valid 7-letter word worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3A1T1T1E1R1N1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =9 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 18TRIPLE WORD → 27
MEANING

What does pattern mean?

NOUN · 8 SENSES
1

A customary way of operation or behavior.

“they changed their dietary pattern”

SYNONYMS
BROADER
2

A perceptual structure.

“a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them”

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3

Something intended as a guide for making something else.

“a pattern for a skirt”

5

The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.

“the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded”

“they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted”

6

Something regarded as a normative example.

BROADER
7

Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.

8

A model considered worthy of imitation.

“the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics”

VERB · 2 SENSES
1

Form a pattern.

“These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before”

2

Plan or create according to a model or models.

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