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

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

CUPPA,

4-letter words (2 found)

CAUP,PUPA,

3-letter words (6 found)

APP,CAP,CUP,PAC,PAP,PUP,

2-letter words (2 found)

PA,UP,

You can make 11 words from cuppa according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cuppa

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Definitions and meaning of cuppa

cuppa

Alternative forms

  • cupper

Etymology

Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (of), pinta (pint of milk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌpə/
  • Rhymes: -ʌpə

Noun

cuppa (plural cuppas)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
    • 1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd.,
      Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine.
    • 2017 Mrs. S. "Guillotines Decide" Orphan Black
      Get Kira up. I'll pour you a cuppa.
  2. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of cup of.

Derived terms

  • cuppa joe

Anagrams

  • cap up

Latin

Etymology

Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From Classical Latin cūpa (tub, cask, vat). Possibly influenced by Frankish *kopp (bowl, vessel), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (round object, bowl, vessel).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkup.pa/, [ˈkʊpːä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkup.pa/, [ˈkupːä]

Noun

cuppa f (genitive cuppae); first declension

  1. drinking vessel
  2. barrel, cask
  3. axle
  4. bar of an oil press

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: cupã
    • Romanian: cupă
  • Italian: coppa
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ку̏па
      Latin script: kȕpa
  • Old French: cope, cupe
    • French: coupe
      • English: coupe
    • Norman: coupe
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: copa
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: copa
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: copa, copo
      • Japanese: コップ (koppu)
      • Kadiwéu: goopa
      • Swahili: kopo
  • Old Spanish: copa
    • Spanish: copa
      • Basque: kopa
      • O'odham: ko꞉ba
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: cope
  • Albanian: kupë
  • Ancient Greek: κοῦπα (koûpa)
    • Byzantine Greek: κούπα (koúpa)
      • Greek: κούπα (koúpa)
      • Aramaic:
        Hebrew script: כובא (kūbā)
        Syriac script: ܟܘܒܐ (kūbā)
        • Arabic: كُوب (kūb)
          • Hijazi Arabic: كوب (kūb, kōb)
  • Old English: cuppe
    • Middle English: cuppe, coppe
      • English: cup
        • Farefare: kɔpɩ
        • Hebrew: קאפ (kap)
        • Japanese: カップ (kappu)
        • Korean: (keop)
        • Maori: kapu
      • Scots: cuppe, capp, cap, caup, kap
      • Middle Irish: cupa
        • Irish: cupa
        • Scottish Gaelic: cupa
    • Welsh: cwpan
  • Old Irish: cuppán
    • Irish: cupán
  • Old High German: kupfa, kupha, kuppa
    • Middle High German: kupfe
      • German: Kuppe
      • Luxembourgish: Kopp

Many descendants of Proto-Germanic *kuppaz have conflated with this word. See there for more.

References

  • cuppa 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)

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