Definitions for Viscount

Viscount vis·count

Spelling: [vahy-kount]
IPA: /ˈvaɪˌkaʊnt/

Viscount is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in Viscount (cinostuv).

Definitions for Viscount

noun

  1. a nobleman next below an earl or count and next above a baron.
  2. History/Historical. a deputy of a count or earl.
  3. (in England) a sheriff.

Origin of Viscount

1350-1400; Middle English viscounte Anglo-French; Old French visconte (French vicomte), equivalent to vis vice3 + counte count

Examples for Viscount

The four page boys listed in today's programme were Hugo Bertie, viscount Aithrie, Charles Armstrong-Jones and Arthur Chatto.

And yet, what could Davis mean by passing him off as the viscount?

viscount Mandeville, like many British aristocrats, had met her in the U.S. while “hunting” for an American wife.

"I suppose you have heard from viscount de la Choue," said she.

She was the daughter of one viscount and the sister of another.

Her father was a viscount, so Taylor married into the Catalan aristocracy.

All I say is, give me a viscount for a son-in-law, and see if I don't 'work the oracle.'

This is the writ of summons calling him to the Lords as viscount Lackington.

At no time during the shoot was viscount Severn directly in front of the Earl of Wessex.

From 1986 to 1995, the viscount Althorp, as young Charles was then known, worked as a correspondent for NBC, most often for Today.

Word Value for Viscount
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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