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Is cuisse a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cuisse a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3U1I1S1S1E1

Is cuisse a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cuisse is a Words With Friends word. The word cuisse is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CUISSE,

5-letter words (3 found)

ISSUE,SCUSE,SICES,

4-letter words (12 found)

CESS,CUES,CUSS,ECUS,ICES,SECS,SEIS,SICE,SICS,SIES,SUES,USES,

3-letter words (13 found)

CIS,CUE,ECU,ESS,ICE,SEC,SEI,SIC,SIS,SUE,SUI,SUS,USE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ES,IS,SI,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of cuisse

cuisse

Etymology

From French cuisse (“thigh”); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwɪs/, /kwiːs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs, -iːs

Noun

cuisse (plural cuisses)

  1. Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.
    Synonyms: cuisset, cuissette, cuisser, cush
    Coordinate terms: cuissard, chausse, chausson

Alternative forms

  • cuish, quish, quisse

See also

  • quisser, quisset

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”). Compare hanche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɥis/
  • Homophone: cuisses

Noun

cuisse f (plural cuisses)

  1. (anatomy) thigh

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: kwis
  • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • cuises

Old French

Alternative forms

  • quisse

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Noun

cuisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuisses, nominative singular cuisse, nominative plural cuisses)

  1. thigh

Descendants

  • French: cuisse
    • Haitian Creole: kwis
    • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
  • Bourguignon: cueusse
  • Gallo: qhesse
  • Lorrain: cueuche
  • Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
  • Walloon: coxhe
  • → Walloon: cwisse

Source: wiktionary.org