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Is frenum a Scrabble word?

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

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Is frenum a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

FRENUM,

5-letter words (3 found)

FEMUR,FUMER,RUMEN,

4-letter words (9 found)

ENUF,FERM,FERN,FUME,MENU,MURE,NEUM,RUME,RUNE,

3-letter words (25 found)

EMU,ERF,ERM,ERN,FEM,FEN,FER,FEU,FUM,FUN,FUR,MEN,MEU,MUN,NEF,NUR,REF,REM,REN,RUE,RUM,RUN,UME,URE,URN,

2-letter words (14 found)

EF,EM,EN,ER,FE,FU,ME,MU,NE,NU,RE,UM,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from frenum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of frenum

frenum

Alternative forms

  • fraenum, frænum (hypercorrect, nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frēnum (“bridle, curb, bit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹiː.nəm/
  • Rhymes: -iːnəm

Noun

frenum (plural frena or frenums)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of frenulum.

Derived terms

  • frenal (adjective)

References

  • “frenum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “frenum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frēnom, from earlier *θrēnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr-eh₁-nom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include ferē, fermē and firmus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfreː.num/, [ˈfreːnʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfre.num/, [ˈfrɛːnum]

Noun

frēnum n (genitive frēnī); second declension

  1. bridle, harness, curb, bit
    circumagere frēnīs equōs ― to reverse the direction of horses by the bridle
    addere frēna equīs ― to add the bridles to the horses
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. means of guiding or governing; restraint, check, limit
    2. (poetic) horse, steed, charger
    3. (in general):
      1. (post-classical, rare) that which holds things together; band
      2. (anatomy) ligament which attaches the inside of the foreskin to the glans

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).

  • Nominative plural is mostly frēnī with frēna occurring more in poets.

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  • “frenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “frenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • frenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “frenum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “frenum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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