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Is chia a Scrabble word?

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

C3H4I1A1

Is chia a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chia is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

C3H4I1A1

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4-letter words (2 found)

CHAI,CHIA,

3-letter words (6 found)

ACH,AHI,CHA,CHI,HIC,ICH,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AI,CH,HA,HI,

You can make 13 words from chia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chia

chia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/
  • Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

  1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
  2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

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Anagrams

  • chai, achi, Achi, AHCI, Chai

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

  1. obsolete spelling of chiyan

Esperanto

Determiner

chia

  1. H-system spelling of ĉia

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃja/

Verb

chia

  1. third-person singular past historic of chier

Galician

Verb

chia

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of chiar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hokkien

Nafaanra

Noun

chia

  1. town

Portuguese

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: chi‧a

Verb

chia

  1. inflection of chiar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 支 (“subdivision; to disburse”, SV: chi).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ciə˧˧]

Verb

chia • (支, 𢺹, 𢺺, 𬨟)

  1. (arithmetic) to divide
    chia (cho) ― (to be) divided by
    chia hết cho ― to be divisible by
  2. to distribute; to share (something with others)
  3. (grammar) to conjugate, to decline
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧], [t͡ɕi˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ciə˧˧], [cɪj˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
  • Phonetic spelling: chia, chi a

Noun

chia

  1. Salvia hispanica

Anagrams

  • chai

Source: wiktionary.org