7 Letters
5 Consonants
2 Vowels
2 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use lighten as a verb in a sentence.
About Lighten
A 2 syllables verb and 7 letters with the letters e, g, h, i, l, n, and t, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter h. Lighten starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters l, li, lig, ligh, light, and the ending characters are n, en, ten, hten, ghten, ..
Definition
Become lighter; "The room lightened up"
Scrabble
Is lighten a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Lighten in Pig Latin is said as "ightenlay or ightenlway".
Unigram
l | i | g | h | t | e | n
Bigram
li | ig | gh | ht | te | en
Trigram
lig | igh | ght | hte | ten
Quadrigram
ligh | ight | ghte | hten
Word Gram
Verb Examples
become lighter;
"The room lightened up"
become brighter;
"The sky brightened"
make lighter or brighter;
"The paint will brighten the room"
make more cheerful
make more cheerful

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Lighten"

There are 199 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to lighten.

SynonymDefinition
Abatebecome less in amount or intensity
"The storm abated"
"The rain let up after a few hours"
Allaysatisfy (thirst)
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
Alleviateprovide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
Appeasemake peace with
Assuageprovide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
Attempermodify the temperature of
"attemper the air"
Attenuatebecome weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
Backgroundscenery hung at back of stage
Ballada narrative poem of popular origin
Bank The Fire

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Anagrams

There are 1 anagrams from lighten.

Anagram Definition
Lightenbecome lighter
"The room lightened up"

View English words with the unique letters used in lighten. Words With The Letters Eghilnt

Hypernyms

Lighten has 1 hypernyms.

Word Definition
Changethe action of changing something
"the change of government had no impact on the economy"
"his change on abortion cost him the election"

Hyponyms

There are 6 hyponyms for lighten

Word Definition
Illumemake lighter or brighter;
"This lamp lightens the room a bit"
Illuminatemake lighter or brighter;
"This lamp lightens the room a bit"
Illuminemake lighter or brighter;
"This lamp lightens the room a bit"
Irradiateexpose to radiation;
"irradiate food"
Lightany device serving as a source of illumination;
"he stopped the car and turned off the lights"
Light Up

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word lighten.

Is lighten a scrabble word or can you use lighten in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 171549 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 121585 games. This 7 letter 11 point scrabble word can be rearranged 5,040 ways. What other words can be made with the letters e, g, h, i, l, n, and t? There's 8 with 9 letters or less with the letters e, g, h, i, l, n, and t. Here is a list of 8 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Vetchling (9 letters) 18 +7 22 +9 vetchling
Lighten (7 letters) 11 13 lighten
Enlighten (9 letters) 13 +2 16 +3 enlighten
Unlighted (9 letters) 14 +3 17 +4 unlighted
Lengthily (9 letters) 16 +5 18 +5 lengthily
Lightened (9 letters) 14 +3 16 +3 lightened
In Length (9 letters)
Atheling (8 letters) 12 +1 14 +1 atheling





     

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