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Is curculio a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word curculio is a Scrabble US word. The word curculio is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is curculio a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word curculio is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

CURCULIO,

5-letter words (8 found)

CLOUR,COLIC,CROCI,CURIO,CURLI,LORIC,OCCUR,OCULI,

4-letter words (13 found)

CIRL,CLOU,COIL,COIR,COUR,CROC,CURL,LOCI,LOIR,LOUR,ROIL,ROUL,URIC,

3-letter words (13 found)

COL,COR,CRU,CUR,LOR,LOU,LUR,OIL,ORC,OUR,ROC,RUC,ULU,

2-letter words (7 found)

IO,LI,LO,OI,OR,OU,UR,

You can make 42 words from curculio according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of curculio

curculio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin curculiō (“weevil”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/

Noun

curculio (plural curculios)

  1. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.
    Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil

Derived terms

  • plum curculio

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

  • gurgulio

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”). Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer, curvus and cancer.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kurˈku.li.oː/, [kʊrˈkʊlʲioː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kurˈku.li.o/, [kurˈkuːlio]

Noun

curculiō f (genitive curculiōnis); third declension

  1. weevil

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: corcoll
  • Galician: gurgullo
  • Italian: gorgoglione, curculione (borrowed)
  • Portuguese: gorgulho
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: crugulloni, urguggioni, grulloni, gruguzoi
    • Logudorese: iscutzone, isgurzone, orguzone, gulligione
    • Nuorese: gulligione, arguzone, arguggione, gurtizone
  • Spanish: gorgojo
  • → Translingual: Curculio

References

  • “curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • curculio 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)
  • curculio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Source: wiktionary.org