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/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
nounverb

District meaning: an administrative division, a feature-marked region, a county division, or a coalface zone.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. An administrative division of an area.

    “Soho is a district of London”

  2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.

    “the Lake District in Cumbria”

  3. An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

    “South Oxfordshire District Council”

  4. A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.

Verb 1 meaning

  1. To divide into administrative or other districts.

    “A county districted for voting purposes.”

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

Etymology

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.

DISTRICT is an eight-letter word with an 11-point base Scrabble score. Its definitions range from a familiar administrative area to a specialized mining term for a coalface zone. The repeated I and T might suggest several rearrangements, but the letters form no anagrams.

DISTRICT at a glance

  • DISTRICT has eight letters and scores 11 points before board bonuses.
  • Its everyday meanings include an administrative division and a region marked by a shared feature.
  • A specialized definition describes a coalface area where particular seams are worked.
  • The letters have no anagrams, despite I and T each appearing twice.

What is the district meaning?

District means an administrative division of an area. It can also describe a region marked by a distinguishing feature, such as a named area within a larger place. In county usage, it can mean an administrative division without borough status.

The word has a more specialized mining sense: a specific part of the coalface where particular seams are worked. That context is narrower than the map-based meanings, so the surrounding subject tells you which definition fits.

Use the administrative sense for a mapped jurisdiction and the feature-based sense for a region grouped by a shared trait. The mining meaning is technical, not simply another word for a neighborhood.

DISTRICT Scrabble score and one-letter neighbor

DISTRICT scores 11 points before board bonuses: D is worth 2, C is worth 3, and the other six tiles are worth 1 each. D and C contribute 5 points together; the repeated I and T keep the remaining tiles low-value.

Only one word sits a single letter away: distract. Check the full arrangement rather than relying on the shared opening, since the two words differ within their letter sequence. That lone neighbor makes DISTRICT an unusually isolated match in this comparison.

DISTRICT also shares the -ict ending with 12 rhymes, including strict, verdict, and conflict. Those words can spark a rhyme, but they are not anagrams: none rearranges all eight letters of DISTRICT.

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Questions people ask

How many points is DISTRICT in Scrabble?
DISTRICT is worth 11 points before any board bonuses. The D is worth 2 and the C is worth 3; each of the other six tiles is worth 1. A premium square can change the turn’s total, but not the word’s base tile value.
What is the only one-letter neighbor of DISTRICT?
Distract is the only one-letter neighbor listed for DISTRICT. Compare the tile order carefully: the words share several letters, but their sequence differs. A one-letter-neighbor match is not the same as an anagram or a simple ending change.
Does DISTRICT have any anagrams?
No, DISTRICT has no anagrams in the listed word comparison. Its letters are C, D, I, I, R, S, T, and T, and no alternate arrangement makes another word. Strict, verdict, and conflict rhyme with it, but do not use the same letters.

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