This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on
Combinatorics on Words WORDS 2017 held in Montréal QC Canada in September 2017. The 21
revised full papers presented together with 5invoted talks were carefully reviewed and selected
from 26 submissions. Discrete geometry plays an expanding role in the fields of shape modeling
image synthesis and image analysis. It deals with topological and geometrical definitions of
digitized objects or digitized images and provides both a theoretical and computational
framework for computer imaging.