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Yes. The word cento is a Scrabble US word. The word cento is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (3 found)

CENTO,CONTE,ONCET,

4-letter words (6 found)

CENT,CONE,COTE,NOTE,ONCE,TONE,

3-letter words (12 found)

CON,COT,ECO,EON,NET,NOT,ONE,TEC,TEN,TOC,TOE,TON,

2-letter words (8 found)

EN,ET,NE,NO,OE,ON,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from cento according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cento

cento ecnto cneto nceto encto necto cetno ectno cteno tceno etcno tecno cnteo ncteo ctneo tcneo ntceo tnceo entco netco etnco tenco nteco tneco cenot ecnot cneot nceot encot necot ceont econt coent ocent eocnt oecnt cnoet ncoet conet ocnet nocet oncet enoct neoct eonct oenct noect onect ceton ecton cteon tceon etcon tecon ceotn ecotn coetn ocetn eoctn oectn ctoen tcoen coten octen tocen otcen etocn teocn eotcn oetcn toecn otecn cntoe nctoe ctnoe tcnoe ntcoe tncoe cnote ncote conte ocnte nocte oncte ctone tcone cotne octne tocne otcne ntoce tnoce notce ontce tonce otnce entoc netoc etnoc tenoc nteoc tneoc enotc neotc eontc oentc noetc onetc etonc teonc eotnc oetnc toenc otenc ntoec tnoec notec ontec tonec otnec

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Definitions and meaning of cento

cento

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

  1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

Derived terms

  • centoism
  • centoist
  • centonical
  • centonism

Anagrams

  • Conte, Conté, Noteć, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sento]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: cen‧to

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

  1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: cen‧to

Numeral

cento

  1. combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

  1. hundred

Numeral

cento

  1. a hundred

Derived terms

  • duo centos (“two hundred”)
  • quatro centos (“four hundred”)
  • cinque centos (“five hundred”)
  • novem centos (“nine hundred”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
  • Hyphenation: cèn‧to

Numeral

cento (invariable)

  1. hundred, one hundred

Derived terms

  • duecento (“two hundred”)
  • trecento (“three hundred”)
  • quattrocento (“four hundred”)
  • cinquecento (“five hundred”)
  • seicento (“six hundred”)
  • settecento (“seven hundred”)
  • ottocento (“eight hundred”)
  • novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

Anagrams

  • Conte, conte, tecno-

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.to/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪o]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

  1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
  2. A cap worn under the helmet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italian: cencio

References

  • “cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cento 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)
  • “cento”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cento”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cen‧to
  • Homophone: sento
  • Rhymes: -ẽtu

Numeral

cento m or f

  1. one hundred (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)

Usage notes

  • See cem for usage of cem vs. cento.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

  1. hundred (100 units of something)

Source: wiktionary.org