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Is eclipsis a Scrabble word?

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

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Is eclipsis a Scrabble UK word?

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

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8-letter words (1 found)

ECLIPSIS,

7-letter words (1 found)

SPLICES,

6-letter words (11 found)

CEILIS,CLIPES,ILICES,PLISSE,SLICES,SLIPES,SPEILS,SPICES,SPIELS,SPILES,SPLICE,

5-letter words (31 found)

CEILI,CEILS,CIELS,CLIES,CLIPE,CLIPS,EPICS,ISLES,ISSEI,LIPES,LISPS,PILEI,PILES,PILIS,PISES,PLIES,SEILS,SEPIC,SICES,SILES,SIPES,SLICE,SLIPE,SLIPS,SPECS,SPEIL,SPICE,SPICS,SPIEL,SPIES,SPILE,

4-letter words (43 found)

CEIL,CELS,CEPS,CESS,CIEL,CLIP,EPIC,ICES,ISLE,LEIS,LEPS,LESS,LICE,LIES,LIPE,LIPS,LISP,PECS,PELS,PICE,PICS,PIES,PILE,PILI,PISE,PISS,PLIE,PSIS,SECS,SEIL,SEIS,SELS,SEPS,SICE,SICS,SIES,SILE,SIPE,SIPS,SLIP,SPEC,SPIC,SPIE,

3-letter words (25 found)

CEL,CEP,CIS,ELS,ESS,ICE,LEI,LEP,LES,LIE,LIP,LIS,PEC,PEL,PES,PIC,PIE,PIS,PSI,SEC,SEI,SEL,SIC,SIP,SIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ES,IS,LI,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 120 words from eclipsis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of eclipsis

eclipsis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/

Noun

eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)

  1. (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
  2. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
  3. (Irish grammar, Manx grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.
    Synonym: nasalization

Related terms

  • eclipse

Translations

See also

  • ecthlipsis

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Catalan

Verb

eclipsis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of eclipsar

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈkliːp.sis/, [ɛˈklʲiːps̠ɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈklip.sis/, [eˈklipsis]

Noun

eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension

  1. a solar eclipse

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

  • eclipticus

Descendants

References

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

Occitan

Noun

eclipsis

  1. plural of eclipsi

Spanish

Noun

eclipsis m pl

  1. plural of eclipsi

Source: wiktionary.org