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Yes. The word commando is a Scrabble US word. The word commando is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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8-letter words (1 found)

COMMANDO,

7-letter words (1 found)

COMMAND,

6-letter words (4 found)

AMMONO,COMMON,CONDOM,MANDOM,

5-letter words (10 found)

AMMON,CODON,COMMA,COMMO,CONDO,DOONA,MACON,MONAD,MONDO,NOMAD,

4-letter words (21 found)

AMMO,CAMO,CODA,COMA,COMM,COND,COOM,COON,DAMN,DOCO,DONA,DOOM,DOON,MAND,MANO,MOAN,MONA,MONO,MOOD,MOON,NOMA,

3-letter words (35 found)

ADO,AND,CAD,CAM,CAN,COD,CON,COO,DAM,DAN,DOC,DOM,DON,DOO,MAC,MAD,MAM,MAN,MNA,MOA,MOC,MOD,MOM,MON,MOO,NAM,NOD,NOM,NOO,OCA,ODA,OMA,ONO,OOM,OON,

2-letter words (14 found)

AD,AM,AN,DA,DO,MA,MM,MO,NA,NO,OD,OM,ON,OO,

You can make 86 words from commando according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of commando

commando

Etymology

From Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando (“command”), from Late Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈmɑːn.dəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːndəʊ
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈmændoʊ/

Noun

commando (plural commandos or commandoes)

  1. A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
  2. A commando trooper.
  4. (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.

Derived terms

  • go commando
  • steak commando

Descendants

  • → Dutch: commando
  • → Greek: κομάντο (kománto)

Translations

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔˈmɑn.doː/, /koːˈmɑn.doː/
  • Hyphenation: com‧man‧do

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish comando.

Noun

commando n (plural commando's)

  1. military command [from 17th c.]
    Synonym: bevel
  2. order, imperative (especially in relation to the military or animal training) [from 17th c.]
    Synonym: bevel
  3. unit or division over whom an officer has command [from 17th c.]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English commando, from Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando.

Noun

commando m (plural commando's)

  1. commando, special forces unit [from 20th c.]
  2. commando, member of a special forces unit [from mid 20th c.]

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.do/

Noun

commando m (plural commandos)

  1. commando (troop, trooper)

Descendants

  • → Turkish: komando

Further reading

  • “commando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /komˈman.do/
  • Rhymes: -ando
  • Hyphenation: com‧màn‧do

Noun

commando m (plural commandi)

  1. commando (troop)

Latin

Etymology 1

Refection of commendō based on the unprefixed counterpart mandō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈmen.doː/, [kɔmˈmɛn̪d̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈmen.do/, [komˈmɛn̪d̪o]

Verb

commandō (present infinitive commandāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

  1. Alternative form of commendō
Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: cumãndu, cumãndari
    • Romanian: comânda, cumânda
  • Dalmatian:
    • comanduar
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: comandare
      • → Spanish: comandar
    • Neapolitan: commannare
    • Sicilian: cumannari, cumandari
      • → Maltese: kkmanda
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: comandâ
    • Ladin: cumander
    • Romansch: commander
    • Venetian: comandar
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: comander, cumander, conmander
      • Middle French: commander
        • French: commander
          • Haitian Creole: kòmande
          • → Northern Kurdish: komandar
          • → Portuguese: comandar
          • → Romanian: comanda
      • Norman: c'mander (Jèrriais)
      • → Middle English: comaunden, comanden, commaunden, commanden, comaunde, comande, commaunde
        • English: command
        • Scots: command
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: comanar ⇒ encomanar, recomanar
    • Occitan: comandar
      • →? Catalan: comandar

Etymology 2

From con- +‎ mandō.

Verb

commandō (present infinitive commandere, perfect active commandī, supine commānsum); third conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to chew

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “commendare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 948

Further reading

  • “commando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

commando m (plural commandos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of comando

Verb

commando

  1. Obsolete spelling of comando

Etymology 2

Verb

commando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of commandar

Source: wiktionary.org