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Is census a Scrabble word?

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

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Is census a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

CENSUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

SCUSE,UNCES,

4-letter words (12 found)

CENS,CESS,CUES,CUSS,ECUS,NESS,SECS,SENS,SUES,SUNS,UNCE,USES,

3-letter words (12 found)

CUE,ECU,ENS,ESS,NUS,SEC,SEN,SUE,SUN,SUS,UNS,USE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,ES,NE,NU,UN,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 34 words from census according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of census

census

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛnsəs/

Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)

  1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
  2. Count, tally.

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Verb

census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)

  1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
  2. (intransitive) To collect a census.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin census.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.zʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cen‧sus

Noun

census m (plural censussen)

  1. A census.
    Synonym: volkstelling
  2. (historical) A tax that one has to pay to receive the right to vote in jurisdictions with census suffrage.
    Synonym: cijns

Derived terms

  • censuskiesrecht

Related terms

  • censureren
  • censor
  • censuur
  • cijns

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: sensus
  • → Indonesian: sensus

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽːs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛnsus]

Noun

cēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension

  1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
  2. A register resulting from a census.
  3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Adjective

cēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. registered
  2. assessed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • “census”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “census”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • census in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “census”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “census”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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