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Yes. The word calypso is a Scrabble US word. The word calypso is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is calypso a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word calypso is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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7-letter words (2 found)

CALYPSO,COSPLAY,

6-letter words (2 found)

COPALS,COPAYS,

5-letter words (31 found)

ACYLS,ALCOS,CALOS,CALPS,CAPOS,CLAPS,CLASP,CLAYS,CLOPS,CLOYS,COALS,COALY,COLAS,COPAL,COPAY,COPSY,OPALS,PACOS,PALSY,PLAYS,PLOYS,POLYS,SALOP,SCALP,SCALY,SCOPA,SLOPY,SOAPY,SPACY,SPLAY,SPYAL,

4-letter words (58 found)

ACYL,ALCO,ALPS,ALSO,APOS,APSO,CALO,CALP,CALS,CAPO,CAPS,CAYS,CLAP,CLAY,CLOP,CLOY,COAL,COLA,COLS,COLY,COPS,COPY,COSY,COYS,LACS,LACY,LAPS,LAYS,LOCA,LOPS,LOYS,OCAS,OPAL,OPAS,PACO,PACS,PACY,PALS,PALY,PAYS,PLAY,PLOY,POAS,POLS,POLY,POSY,PYAS,SALP,SCOP,SLAP,SLAY,SLOP,SOAP,SOCA,SOLA,SOYA,SPAY,YAPS,

3-letter words (46 found)

ALP,ALS,APO,ASP,AYS,CAL,CAP,CAY,CLY,COL,COP,COS,COY,LAC,LAP,LAS,LAY,LOP,LOS,LOY,OCA,OPA,OPS,OYS,PAC,PAL,PAS,PAY,PLY,POA,POL,POS,PYA,SAC,SAL,SAP,SAY,SLY,SOC,SOL,SOP,SOY,SPA,SPY,YAP,YAS,

2-letter words (13 found)

AL,AS,AY,LA,LO,OP,OS,OY,PA,PO,SO,YA,YO,

You can make 152 words from calypso according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of calypso

calypso

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ku̇lĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
  • (US) enPR: kəlĭpʹsō, IPA(key): /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ

Etymology 1

Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.

Noun

calypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)

  1. A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
    • 1959, V. S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth”, in Miguel Street:
      'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day.
      He said, 'You mean how I get money?'
      When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way.
      He said, 'I sing calypsoes in the calypso season.'
      'And that last you the rest of the year?'
      'It is enough.'
Derived terms
  • calypsonian
  • calypso-like
  • gospelypso
  • soca
Translations

Verb

calypso (third-person singular simple present calypsos, present participle calypsoing, simple past and past participle calypsoed)

  1. (intransitive) To perform calypso.

Further reading

  • Calypso music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Latin, itself from Ancient Greek Καλυψώ (Kalupsṓ, “name of a sea nymph”)

Wikispecies

Noun

calypso (countable and uncountable, plural calypsos or calypsoes)

  1. A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
  2. A light blue color. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations

Further reading

  • Calypso (orchid) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

  • cosplay

Finnish

Etymology

< English calypso

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑlypso/, [ˈkɑ̝lyps̠o̞]

Noun

calypso

  1. calypso (style of music)

Declension

French

Noun

calypso m (plural calypsos)

  1. calypso

Further reading

  • “calypso”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English calypso.

Noun

calypso n (plural calypsouri)

  1. calypso

Declension

Swedish

Noun

calypso c

  1. calypso (type of music or dance)

Declension

References

  • calypso in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • calypso in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org