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Yes. The word gurges is a Scrabble US word. The word gurges is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word gurges is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

GURGES,

5-letter words (4 found)

GRUES,GURGE,SURGE,URGES,

4-letter words (15 found)

EGGS,ERGS,GERS,GRUE,GUES,GURS,REGS,RUES,RUGS,RUSE,SUER,SURE,URES,URGE,USER,

3-letter words (19 found)

EGG,ERG,ERS,GER,GUE,GUR,GUS,REG,RES,RUE,RUG,SEG,SER,SUE,SUG,SUR,UGS,URE,USE,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,ES,GU,RE,UG,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from gurges according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gurges

gurges

Etymology 1

Latin gurges.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝd͡ʒiz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːd͡ʒiːz/

Noun

gurges (plural gurges or gurgeses)

  1. (rare) A whirlpool.
  2. (heraldry) A series of typically four to six concentric annulets (in early heraldry, from at least the 1200s), or a spiralling line from the centre to the edge of the shield (in late heraldry); a stylized whirlpool.

Etymology 2

Noun

gurges

  1. plural of gurge

Further reading

  • “gurges”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “gurges”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • “gurges”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

  • Rueggs, uggers

Latin

Etymology

Possibly a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”) (whence also vorō). Compare Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “whirlpool, eddy; water-jar; subterranean drain”), Ancient Greek γόργυρα (górgura, “underground drain; water-pot; trough”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡur.ɡes/, [ˈɡʊrɡɛs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡur.d͡ʒes/, [ˈɡurd͡ʒes]

Noun

gurges m (genitive gurgitis); third declension

  1. whirlpool
  2. eddy
  3. gulf, sea
  4. abyss

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: gorg, gorga
  • Middle French: gour
    • French: gour
      • → English: gour
  • Galician: gorgozo
  • Italian: gorgo
  • → Italian: gurgite (from the inflected form gurgitem)

References

  • “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gurges in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • gurges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “gurges”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Source: wiktionary.org