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Yes. The word caudal is a Scrabble US word. The word caudal is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CAUDAL,

5-letter words (3 found)

CAUDA,CAULD,DUCAL,

4-letter words (8 found)

AULA,AULD,CAUL,CLAD,DAAL,DUAL,LAUD,UDAL,

3-letter words (12 found)

AAL,ALA,ALU,AUA,CAA,CAD,CAL,CUD,DAL,LAC,LAD,LUD,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AD,AL,DA,LA,

You can make 29 words from caudal according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of caudal

caudal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
  • Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle

Adjective

caudal (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
  2. (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
    Antonyms: cephalad, cephalic

Derived terms

Related terms

  • queue

Translations

Noun

caudal (plural caudals)

  1. A caudal vertebra.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dacula, Laduca

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.dal/

Adjective

caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)

  1. (anatomy) caudal

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: cau‧dal

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). By surface analysis, cauda +‎ -al.

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)

  1. (zoology) caudal (of or relating to the tail)
Derived terms

Noun

caudal f (plural caudais)

  1. caudal vertebra
    Synonym: vértebra caudal

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish caudal, from Latin capitālis (“capital; deadly”). See also the doublets cabedal and capital.

Noun

caudal m (plural caudais)

  1. torrent (heavy stream or flow)
    Synonym: torrente
  2. (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)
    Synonyms: fluxo, vazão
  3. (figuratively) a great amount of volume of something
    Synonym: monte

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)

  1. torrential (flowing heavily)
    Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial
Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caudale.

Adjective

caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)

  1. caudal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kauˈdal/ [kau̯ˈð̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: cau‧dal

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.

Noun

caudal m (plural caudales)

  1. flow
  2. volume
  3. funds
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caudālis.

Adjective

caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)

  1. caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)
Derived terms

Further reading

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

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