peripeteia

NOUN /,pɛrəpɪ'taɪə/

10 LETTERS · 5 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH P

peripeteia is a valid 10-letter word worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS

P3E1R1I1P3E1T1E1I1A1

3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =14 PTS

DOUBLE WORD → 28TRIPLE WORD → 42

MEANING

What does peripeteia mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE

A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work).

“a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling”

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