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Is caries a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word caries is a Scrabble US word. The word caries is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

C3A1R1I1E1S1

Is caries a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word caries is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3A1R1I1E1S1

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Yes. The word caries is a Words With Friends word. The word caries is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (3 found)

CARIES,CERIAS,ERICAS,

5-letter words (26 found)

ACERS,ACRES,AESIR,AREIC,ARISE,CARES,CARSE,CERIA,CIRES,CRIAS,CRIES,CRISE,ERICA,ERICS,ESCAR,ICERS,RACES,RAISE,REAIS,RICES,SAICE,SCARE,SCRAE,SERAC,SERAI,SERIC,

4-letter words (40 found)

ACER,ACES,ACRE,AESC,AIRS,ARCS,ARES,ARIS,ARSE,ASCI,CARE,CARS,CASE,CEAS,CIRE,CRIA,CRIS,EARS,ERAS,ERIC,ICER,ICES,IRES,RACE,RAIS,RASE,RECS,REIS,RIAS,RICE,RISE,SAIC,SAIR,SARI,SCAR,SEAR,SEIR,SERA,SICE,SIRE,

3-letter words (31 found)

ACE,AIR,AIS,ARC,ARE,ARS,CAR,CIS,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,ICE,IRE,RAI,RAS,REC,REI,RES,RIA,SAC,SAE,SAI,SAR,SEA,SEC,SEI,SER,SIC,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AI,AR,AS,EA,ER,ES,IS,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 111 words from caries according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of caries

caries

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cariēs.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɛə.ɹiːz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ɹiz/
  • (with Mary–marry–merry merger and happy tensing) Homophones: carries, karris
  • Hyphenation: car‧ies

Noun

caries (countable and uncountable, plural caries)

  1. The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay.
Synonyms
  • cavity
Derived terms
  • dental caries
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

caries

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cary

Anagrams

  • Serica, ericas

French

Pronunciation

Noun

caries f

  1. plural of carie

Verb

caries

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carier

Anagrams

  • aciers
  • casier
  • craies
  • créais
  • écrias
  • sciera

Latin

Etymology

From careō (“to lack”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.eːs/, [ˈkärieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.es/, [ˈkäːries]

Noun

cariēs f (genitive cariēī); fifth declension

  1. decay, rot, rottenness, corruption

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • cariōsus

Descendants

See also

  • carius

References

  • “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caries.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾjes/ [ˈka.ɾjes]
  • Rhymes: -aɾjes
  • Syllabification: ca‧ries

Noun

caries f (plural caries)

  1. (dentistry) caries, cavity

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “caries”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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