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Is caveola a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word caveola is a Scrabble US word. The word caveola is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is caveola a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word caveola is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3A1V4E1O1L1A1

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7-letter words (2 found)

CAVEOLA,COAEVAL,

6-letter words (2 found)

ALCOVE,COEVAL,

5-letter words (10 found)

AVALE,CALVE,CAVEL,CLAVE,CLOVE,COALA,LAEVO,LOAVE,VOCAL,VOLAE,

4-letter words (28 found)

ALAE,ALCO,ALEC,ALOE,AVAL,AVEL,CALO,CAVA,CAVE,COAL,COLA,COLE,COVE,LACE,LAVA,LAVE,LEVA,LEVO,LOCA,LOVE,OLEA,OVAL,OVEL,VALE,VEAL,VELA,VOLA,VOLE,

3-letter words (24 found)

AAL,ACE,ALA,ALE,AVA,AVE,AVO,CAA,CAL,CEL,COL,ECO,EVO,LAC,LAV,LEA,LEV,OCA,OLE,OVA,VAC,VAE,VOE,VOL,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,LO,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 75 words from caveola according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of caveola

caveola

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin caveola, constructed from cavea (“hollow, cavity; cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive suffix). Doublet of jail, which is from Late Latin caveola, an earlier, natural formation of the same term. More at cave, cavum, cava and cage.

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊlə

Noun

caveola (plural caveolae)

  1. A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types.

Related terms

  • caveogenesis
  • caveolar
  • caveolin

Translations

Anagrams

  • coaeval, coæval

Italian

Noun

caveola f (plural caveole)

  1. caveola

Latin

Etymology

From cavea (“cage”) +‎ -ola (diminutive ending). Attested in glosses from late antiquity.

Noun

caveola f (genitive caveolae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. little cage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: gabbiuola; cagiuolo m (archaic)
    • Neapolitan:
      caggiola (Matera)
      cajola (Molise, Sora)
      gaggiola (Tegiano)
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: gabiola; gabieul m
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: cajola ⇒? garjola
    • Old French: jaiole (see there for further descendants)
    • Gascon: cujòla, cojòla
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: gayola
      • →? Spanish: gayola
    • Galician: gaiola
    • Portuguese: gaiola

References

  • Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “jaula”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 501

Spanish

Noun

caveola f (plural caveolas)

  1. caveola

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Source: wiktionary.org