topicalize

VERB
10 LETTERS · STARTS WITH T

topicalize is a valid 10-letter word worth 23 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
T1O1P3I1C3A1L1I1Z10E1
1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 10 + 1 =23 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 46TRIPLE WORD → 69
MEANING

What does topicalize mean?

VERB · 1 SENSE
1

Emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence.

“Speakers topicalize more often than they realize”

“The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'”