Definitions for enigma

enigma e·nig·ma

Spelling: [uh-nig-muh]
IPA: /əˈnɪg mə/

Enigma is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in enigma (aegimn).

Definitions for enigma

noun

  1. a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
  2. a person of puzzling or contradictory character:
  3. a saying, question, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning; riddle.
  4. (initial capital letter) a German-built enciphering machine developed for commercial use in the early 1920s and later adapted and appropriated by German and other Axis powers for military use through World War II.

Origin of enigma

1530-40; Latin aenigma Greek aínigma, equivalent to ainik- (stem of ainíssesthai to speak in riddles, derivative of aînos fable) + -ma noun suffix of result

Examples for enigma

The prodigious computer genius, who took his own life Friday at age 26, remains an enigma to those unaware of his many projects.

As great as this feat was, an equally demanding test followed: to conceal from the Nazis that enigma had been beaten.

Lil B is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a song about Ellen Degeneres.

The name is "an enigma even to me," Taylor says -- an appropriately mysterious moniker to make spiritual music under.

Despite her many high-profile projects, Carine Roitfeld still manages to maintain a sense of enigma in the public mind.

"Troilus and Cressida" has always been regarded as a sort of enigma.

By the dignity of my profession, it must be so:—Now there's a solution to the enigma.

As for Jane Temple's view of this business, that remained an enigma.

The Queen then condescended to explain the whole of the enigma to me.

Whether he will buy his fleet abroad or build it himself is at present an enigma.

Word Value for enigma
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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