Pretext is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 74 anagrams from letters in pretext (eeprttx).
1505-15; Latin praetextum pretext, ornament, noun use of neuter past participle of praetexere to pretend, literally, to weave in front, hence, adorn. See pre-,
That pretext may have come with the violence that erupted in the port city of Odessa on yesterday. There is the critical difference that in this case the U.S. administration is not looking for a pretext to go to war. She had not got at all wet when standing under the window, and had said so only as a pretext to get him to let her in. Now, by some pretext, by some wile, he must live to see her once more. Maula Bux himself was killed in 2006, after being lured across the border by Iranian forces on the pretext of a drug deal. But he warned against using the pretext of defense to launch vast campaigns of destruction. Some Syrian rebel groups maintain that the Americans invented Khorasan as a pretext for the attack. The pretext is none of mine; it's hers, and she shall have enough of it.' I lived for men on the pretext of living for God, while she lived for God imagining that she lives for men. His son, who was then at Court with him, was, upon the pretext of a liaison with Mdlle.Examples for pretext