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Yes. The word chorea is a Scrabble US word. The word chorea is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is chorea a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chorea is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (3 found)

CHOREA,OCHREA,ORACHE,

5-letter words (9 found)

CHARE,CHORE,OCHER,OCHRE,OCREA,ORACH,RACHE,REACH,ROACH,

4-letter words (30 found)

ACER,ACHE,ACRE,ACRO,AERO,ARCH,ARCO,CARE,CERO,CHAO,CHAR,CHER,CORE,EACH,ECHO,HARE,HARO,HEAR,HERO,HOAR,HOER,HORA,HORE,OCHE,ORCA,RACE,RACH,RHEA,ROCH,ROHE,

3-letter words (31 found)

ACE,ACH,ARC,ARE,CAR,CHA,CHE,COR,EAR,ECH,ECO,ERA,HAE,HAO,HER,HOA,HOC,HOE,OAR,OCA,OCH,ORA,ORC,ORE,RAH,REC,REH,REO,RHO,ROC,ROE,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AH,AR,CH,EA,EH,ER,HA,HE,HO,OE,OH,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 88 words from chorea according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of chorea

chorea

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
  • Homophone: Korea
  • Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

  1. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
  2. (pathology) Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance.
    Hypernym: dyskinesia

Derived terms

  • chorea-acanthocytosis
  • chorea gravidarum
  • choreal
  • choreiform movements
  • chorein
  • hemichorea
  • Huntington's chorea
  • Sydenham's chorea

Related terms

  • choreo-
    • choreodrama
    • choreography
    • choreomania
  • chorus
  • subchoreal

Translations

Anagrams

  • HORECA, HoReCa, Horace, Roache, archeo-, ochrea, orache

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance; circling motion”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kʰoˈreː.a/, [kʰɔˈreːä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈre.a/, [koˈrɛːä]

Noun

chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension

  1. (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
  2. (metonymically) A round dance of the circular motions of the stars.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

  • choricus
  • chorus

Descendants

  • Catalan: corea
  • French: chorée
  • Italian: corea
  • Portuguese: coreia
  • Spanish: corea

References

  • “chorea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “chorea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • chorea 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)
  • chorea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “chorea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]

Spanish

Verb

chorea

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

Source: wiktionary.org