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

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Yes. The word gabion is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

BAGNIO,GABION,

5-letter words (7 found)

BINGO,BOGAN,BOING,GOBAN,GONIA,NGAIO,OBANG,

4-letter words (16 found)

AGIN,AGIO,AGON,BANG,BANI,BIGA,BING,BIOG,BONA,BONG,GAIN,GOBI,INGO,NAOI,NGAI,OBIA,

3-letter words (31 found)

ABO,AGO,AIN,ANI,BAG,BAN,BAO,BIG,BIN,BIO,BOA,BOG,BOI,BON,GAB,GAN,GIB,GIN,GIO,GOA,GOB,GON,ING,ION,NAB,NAG,NIB,NOB,NOG,OBA,OBI,

2-letter words (16 found)

AB,AG,AI,AN,BA,BI,BO,GI,GO,IN,IO,NA,NO,OB,OI,ON,

You can make 72 words from gabion according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gabion

gabion

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.bi.ən/

Noun

gabion (plural gabions)

  1. (historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
  2. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
  3. (civil engineering) A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
  4. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.
    Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.
    • 1774, James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie p. vi, quoted in 2004, Walter Scott Reliquiae Trotcosiensis, Edinburgh University Press, p.6,

Derived terms

  • gabion wall

Related terms

  • gabioned

See also

  • sap — several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications

Further reading

  • gabion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Gabino, bagnio

French

Pronunciation

Noun

gabion m (plural gabions)

  1. gabion

Further reading

  • “gabion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gabion.

Noun

gabion n (plural gabioane)

  1. gabion

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org