meltdown is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

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Meanings

Noun (COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE)

Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping. Category:en:Radioactivity
• Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041130094534/http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html]
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
• Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262]
(psychology) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.

meltdown is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 14 points

meltdown is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 36 points

meltdown is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 36 points

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Same letters words (Anagrams)

• none

Same letters plus one

• MELTDOWNS

Same letters minus one

• DELMONT
• LETDOWN