Definitions for contraption

contraption con·trap·tion

Spelling: [kuh n-trap-shuh n]
IPA: /kənˈtræp ʃən/

Contraption is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 650 anagrams from letters in contraption (acinnooprtt).

Definitions for contraption

noun

  1. a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device.

Origin of contraption

1815-25; perhaps contr(ivance) + (ad)aption, variant of adaptation

Examples for contraption

Instinctively, we know it's not, but despair about how to turn the contraption off.

Yesterday we could bag them one after the other, as fast as I could fire this contraption.

And your mother said you shouldn't ever have such a contraption in the house again.

He was, it appears, overpowered as the contraption failed to properly ignite.

Go upstairs again, Amy, and haul up this end of the contraption.

Wall, stranger, what kind of a contraption do you-all reckon to have thar?

When we find Craven, we'll find the contraption that's blanketing Jupiter and its moons.

But it took ten days to get the contraption ready for the next fizzle.

My children's teeth never had to have all this contraption on them.

Aw, you don't think you're ever going to get there with that contraption, do you?

Word Value for contraption
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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