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Yes. The word gnocchi is a Scrabble US word. The word gnocchi is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word gnocchi is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

GNOCCHI,

6-letter words (2 found)

CHICON,COCHIN,

5-letter words (13 found)

CHICO,CHING,CHINO,CINCH,COIGN,CONCH,CONIC,GINCH,GONCH,HOING,HONGI,INCOG,OHING,

4-letter words (15 found)

CHIC,CHIN,CHOC,CHOG,CHON,CION,COCH,COIN,CONI,HING,HONG,ICON,INCH,INGO,NIGH,

3-letter words (20 found)

CHI,CIG,COG,CON,GHI,GIN,GIO,GON,HIC,HIN,HOC,HOG,HOI,HON,ICH,ING,ION,NOG,NOH,OCH,

2-letter words (11 found)

CH,GI,GO,HI,HO,IN,IO,NO,OH,OI,ON,

You can make 62 words from gnocchi according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gnocchi

gnocchi

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjɒ.ki/, (sometimes proscribed) /ˈnɒ.ki/
  • (US) enPR: nyōʹkē, IPA(key): /ˈnjoʊ.ki/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɒki, (US) -oʊki

Noun

gnocchi (countable and uncountable, plural gnocchis) or gnocchi pl (normally plural, singular gnocco)

  1. Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.

Translations

Further reading

  • gnocchi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnjokːi/, [ˈnjo̞kːi]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡnokːi/, [ˈɡno̞kːi]

Noun

gnocchi

  1. gnocchi

Usage notes

The Italian plural word has been adopted into Finnish as a singular.

Declension

Further reading

  • “gnocchi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɲɔ.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m (plural gnocchis)

  1. gnocchi

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈɲɔk.ki/
  • Rhymes: -ɔkki
  • Hyphenation: gnòc‧chi

Noun

gnocchi m pl

  1. plural of gnocco
  2. a dish of gnocchi

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɔk.ki/
  • Rhymes: -ɔkki
  • Syllabification: gnoc‧chi

Noun

gnocchi nvir pl (indeclinable)

  1. gnocchi (Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina)

Further reading

  • gnocchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • nhoque (Brazil)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: nhoque (Brazil)

Noun

gnocchi m (invariable)

  1. gnocchi

References


Source: wiktionary.org