Definitions for octopus

octopus oc·to·pus

Spelling: [ok-tuh-puh s]
IPA: /ˈɒk tə pəs/

Octopus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in octopus (coopstu).

Definitions for octopus

noun

  1. any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
  2. something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.

Origin of octopus

1750-60; New Latin Greek oktṓpous (plural oktṓpodes) eight-footed; see octo-, -pod

Examples for octopus

Instead, as Guy Lawson writes in octopus, Israel engineered a haphazard plan to fake his own death.

They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the octopus.

Sadly, Paul the octopus did not outlive his impressive but unpopular World Cup predictions by long.

The squid is a very small edition of the giant devilfish or octopus.

It was only at the hotel with Pre Batifoul that I learnt about the octopus.

No octopus, no matter what proportions, filled the description.

octopus is one of those sleazy and boorish Americans whose instincts prove correct.

And so far, getting along with Russia was like trying to get along with an octopus.

Not until she was elbow deep in suds did she recall her dreams about the octopus.

It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.

Word Value for octopus
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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