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Is ginkgo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ginkgo is a Scrabble US word. The word ginkgo is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is ginkgo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ginkgo is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

GINGKO,GINKGO,

5-letter words (2 found)

GOING,OGGIN,

4-letter words (10 found)

GING,GINK,GONG,GONK,IKON,INGO,KING,KINO,NOGG,OINK,

3-letter words (13 found)

GIG,GIN,GIO,GON,IGG,ING,INK,ION,KIN,KOI,KON,NOG,OIK,

2-letter words (10 found)

GI,GO,IN,IO,KI,KO,NO,OI,OK,ON,

You can make 37 words from ginkgo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ginkgo

ginkgo

Etymology

From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V [...] (1712) authored by Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species. In his way of transcription ginkyo would have been Ginkjo or Ginkio but was printed as Ginkgo. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ

Noun

ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)

  1. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
  2. The seed of a ginkgo tree.

Alternative forms

  • gingko

Synonyms

  • maidenhair tree

Derived terms

  • ginkgo nut
  • ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens)

Translations

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Anagrams

  • gingko

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiŋ.ko/

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • gingko
  • ginco (rare)

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba, a tree of China)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ginkgo.

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgo)

  1. ginkgo

Declension

Spanish

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo

Further reading

  • “ginkgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org