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Is culmen a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word culmen is a Scrabble US word. The word culmen is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word culmen is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3U1L1M3E1N1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CULMEN,

5-letter words (2 found)

LUMEN,UNCLE,

4-letter words (9 found)

CLEM,CLUE,CULM,LUCE,LUNE,MENU,MULE,NEUM,UNCE,

3-letter words (15 found)

CEL,CUE,CUM,ECU,ELM,EMU,LEU,LUM,LUN,MEL,MEN,MEU,MUN,ULE,UME,

2-letter words (9 found)

EL,EM,EN,ME,MU,NE,NU,UM,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 37 words from culmen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of culmen

culmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).

Noun

culmen (plural culmens or culmina)

  1. Top; summit.
    Synonyms: top, summit, acme
  2. (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

Derived terms

  • culminal

Further reading

  • “culmen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Doublet of columen.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkʊɫ̪mɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkulmen]

Noun

culmen n (genitive culminis); third declension

  1. stalk
  2. top, roof, summit, peak
    Synonyms: cacūmen, apex, vertex, fastīgium, summitās
    Antonym: fundus
  3. (figuratively) height, acme

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

References

  • “culmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “culmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • culmen 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)
  • culmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Collins Latin Dictionary, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin culmen. Doublet of cumbre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkulmen/ [ˈkul.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -ulmen
  • Syllabification: cul‧men

Noun

culmen m (plural cúlmenes)

  1. height, epitome, high point

Further reading

  • “culmen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org