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

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5-letter words (2 found)

FEMUR,FUMER,

4-letter words (4 found)

FERM,FUME,MURE,RUME,

3-letter words (15 found)

EMU,ERF,ERM,FEM,FER,FEU,FUM,FUR,MEU,REF,REM,RUE,RUM,UME,URE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EF,EM,ER,FE,FU,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from femur according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of femur

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Definitions and meaning of femur

femur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

  1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
  2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
  3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms

  • femoral
  • femur head

Translations

Anagrams

  • fumer

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

Noun

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

  1. thigh
  2. thighbone
  3. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
  4. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Derived terms
  • femorālis
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

Verb

fēmur

  1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References

  • “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • femur 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)
  • femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fémur.

Noun

femur n (plural femururi)

  1. femur

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org