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Yes. The word ferula is a Scrabble US word. The word ferula is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

EARFUL,FERULA,

5-letter words (8 found)

ALURE,FARLE,FERAL,FEUAR,FLARE,FLEUR,FURAL,UREAL,

4-letter words (24 found)

ALEF,ARLE,EARL,FARE,FARL,FAUR,FEAL,FEAR,FLEA,FLUE,FRAE,FRAU,FUEL,FURL,LAER,LARE,LAUF,LEAF,LEAR,LURE,RALE,REAL,RULE,UREA,

3-letter words (27 found)

ALE,ALF,ALU,ARE,ARF,AUE,AUF,EAR,EAU,ELF,ERA,ERF,FAE,FAR,FER,FEU,FLU,FRA,FUR,LAR,LEA,LEU,LUR,REF,RUE,ULE,URE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AL,AR,EA,EF,EL,ER,FA,FE,FU,LA,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 75 words from ferula according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ferula

ferula

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”), whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys. Doublet of ferule.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛɹələ/

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

  1. (obsolete) A ferule.
  2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
  3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Laufer, earful

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain but perhaps connected to festūca (“stalk, straw”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.ru.la/, [ˈfɛrʊɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.ru.la/, [ˈfɛːrulä]

Noun

ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension

  1. giant fennel (Ferula communis)
  2. a staff, stick, rod
  3. a splint
  4. the unramified horn of a young stag

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • ⇒ Aragonese: cañaferra
  • → Catalan: fèrula (learned), > ferla (inherited), ⇒ canyaferla
  • → English: ferula
  • → French: férule
    • → English: ferule
  • Lombard: ferla
  • Old Occitan: ferla
  • Piedmontese: ferla
  • Romagnol: ferla
  • Sardinian: feurra
  • Sicilian: ferra, fella, A Ferra
  • → Spanish: férula
  • → Translingual: Ferula

References

  • Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “caña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 822
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fĕrŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 477
  • “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ferula 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)
  • ferula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ferula in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

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