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Is hernia a Scrabble word?

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

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Is hernia a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

HERNIA,

5-letter words (2 found)

RAINE,RHINE,

4-letter words (21 found)

AINE,AIRN,EARN,EINA,HAEN,HAIN,HAIR,HARE,HARN,HEAR,HEIR,HERN,HIRE,NARE,NEAR,RAIN,RANI,REAN,REIN,RHEA,RINE,

3-letter words (28 found)

AHI,AIN,AIR,ANE,ANI,ARE,EAN,EAR,ERA,ERN,HAE,HAN,HEN,HER,HIE,HIN,IRE,NAE,NAH,NIE,RAH,RAI,RAN,REH,REI,REN,RIA,RIN,

2-letter words (16 found)

AE,AH,AI,AN,AR,EA,EH,EN,ER,HA,HE,HI,IN,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 69 words from hernia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hernia

hernia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)niə/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)niə

Noun

hernia (plural hernias or herniae or (dated) herniæ)

  1. (pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
    give someone a hernia
    have a hernia

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Neriah, Rehani, hairen, hearin'

Catalan

Verb

hernia

  1. inflection of herniar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH-ni-eh₂, from *ǵʰer- (“bowels, intestines”). Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈher.ni.a/, [ˈhɛrniä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ni.a/, [ˈɛrniä]

Noun

hernia f (genitive herniae); first declension

  1. protruded viscus, hernia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “hernia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hernia 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)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɾnja/ [ˈeɾ.nja]
  • Rhymes: -eɾnja
  • Syllabification: her‧nia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”).

Noun

hernia f (plural hernias)

  1. (pathology) hernia
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hernia

  1. only used in se hernia, third-person singular present indicative of herniarse
  2. only used in te ... hernia, syntactic variant of hérniate, second-person singular imperative of herniarse

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • herían

Source: wiktionary.org