Definition of ICONOMATIC

iconomatic

Adj

  • The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.

Origin / Etymology

A clipping of earlier icononomatic, from a modern combination of Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon, image, likeness”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”).

Scrabble Score: 16

iconomatic: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
iconomatic: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
iconomatic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

iconomatic: not valid in Words With Friends