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 Dictionaryiconomatic: 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