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Is gigue a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gigue is a Scrabble US word. The word gigue is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is gigue a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gigue is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Is gigue a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gigue is a Words With Friends word. The word gigue is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GIGUE,

3-letter words (5 found)

EGG,GIE,GIG,GUE,IGG,

2-letter words (3 found)

GI,GU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from gigue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gigue

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Definitions and meaning of gigue

gigue

Etymology

From French gigue. Doublet of jig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒiːɡ/
  • Rhymes: -iːɡ

Noun

gigue (plural gigues)

  1. an Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period).

Anagrams

  • guige

French

Etymology

From Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *gīge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeyǵʰ-, *gʰeygʰ- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”). More at gig, geg, jig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒiɡ/

Noun

gigue f (plural gigues)

  1. (music) string instrument, roughly in the form of a mandoline (c. 1120–50)
  2. (dance) lively and gay dance originary from the British Isles, gigue, jig
  3. (music) musical melody, to be danced in the way of a gigue
  4. (informal) long leg, tall and skinny girl, haunch of some animals especially venison (19th century)
  5. (colloquial) disorderly way of dancing (danser la gigue), twerk of the hips (gigue des fesses; early 20th century)
  6. a small boat, gig
  7. (telecommunications) jitter

Derived terms

  • gigolette

Descendants

  • → English: gigue

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org