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Is asper a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word asper is a Scrabble US word. The word asper is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is asper a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word asper is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (13 found)

APERS,APRES,ASPER,PARES,PARSE,PEARS,PRASE,PRESA,RAPES,REAPS,SPAER,SPARE,SPEAR,

4-letter words (22 found)

APER,APES,APSE,ARES,ARSE,EARS,ERAS,PARE,PARS,PASE,PEAR,PEAS,RAPE,RAPS,RASE,RASP,REAP,REPS,SEAR,SERA,SPAE,SPAR,

3-letter words (24 found)

APE,ARE,ARS,ASP,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,PAR,PAS,PEA,PER,PES,PRE,RAP,RAS,REP,RES,SAE,SAP,SAR,SEA,SER,SPA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AR,AS,EA,ER,ES,PA,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 69 words from asper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of asper

asper

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæspə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæspɚ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English aspre, from Old French aspre (modern French âpre), from Latin asper (“rough”).

Alternative forms

  • aspre

Adjective

asper (comparative more asper, superlative most asper)

  1. (obsolete) Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious.

Noun

asper (uncountable)

  1. (phonetics, obsolete) Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.
Derived terms
  • spiritus asper

Etymology 2

From Middle English asper, from Middle French aspre or Italian aspro, both from Ancient Greek ἄσπρον (áspron), from neuter of ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”), from Latin asper (“rough, newly minted”).

Alternative forms

  • aspron

Noun

asper (plural aspers)

  1. (historical) Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries.

Anagrams

  • rapes, après, Pears, prase, Spera, presa, apers, spaer, RESPA, pears, Spare, après-, reaps, præs., apres, parse, Rapes, Earps, Presa, aprés, spear, Spear, Peras, spare, pares, sarpe

Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂esp- (“to cut”), also present in Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) and Hittite [script needed] (ḫasp-, “to cut down”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈas.pɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈas.per]

Adjective

asper (feminine aspera, neuter asperum, comparative asperior, superlative asperrimus, adverb asperē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. rough, uneven, coarse
  2. unrefined, rude
  3. sharp, newly minted
  4. harsh, bitter, fierce
    Synonyms: ācer, acerbus, frāctus
    odia aspera ― bitter hatred

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “asper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “asper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • asper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “asper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “asper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Anagrams

  • pares

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

asper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of asp

Source: wiktionary.org