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

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6-letter words (2 found)

HIATUS,HUTIAS,

5-letter words (5 found)

AITUS,HUIAS,HUTIA,SAITH,TAISH,

4-letter words (28 found)

AHIS,AITS,AITU,HAST,HATS,HAUT,HIST,HITS,HUIA,HUIS,HUTS,ITAS,SATI,SAUT,SHAT,SHIT,SHUT,SITH,SUIT,TAIS,TASH,TAUS,THIS,THUS,TUIS,TUSH,UTAS,UTIS,

3-letter words (28 found)

AHI,AHS,AIS,AIT,ASH,ATS,HAS,HAT,HIS,HIT,HUI,HUT,ISH,ITA,ITS,SAI,SAT,SAU,SHA,SIT,SUI,TAI,TAS,TAU,TIS,TUI,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (16 found)

AH,AI,AS,AT,HA,HI,IS,IT,SH,SI,ST,TA,TI,UH,US,UT,

You can make 79 words from hiatus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hiatus

hiatus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɪˈeɪtəs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtəs

Noun

hiatus (countable and uncountable, plural hiatus or hiatuses)

  1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
  2. An interruption, break or pause.
  3. An unexpected break from work.
  4. (geology) A gap in geological strata.
  5. (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
  6. (linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
  7. A temporary absence from the public or the mainstream.

Synonyms

  • (gap in series): break
  • (interruption, break, pause): breather, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

  • hiatic
  • hiatus hernia

Translations

Anagrams

  • Atushi, hutias

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English hiatus), ultimately from Latin hiātus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhiɑtus/, [ˈhiɑ̝t̪us̠]
  • Rhymes: -iɑtus
  • Syllabification(key): hi‧a‧tus

Noun

hiatus

  1. (linguistics) A hiatus (syllable break between two vowels).
  2. (anatomy) A hiatus (opening in an organ).

Declension

Synonyms

  • (opening in an organ): aukko, avanne

See also

  • (linguistics): vokaaliyhtymä

Anagrams

  • haisut, haitsu, hitaus

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”), from hiō (“stand open”).

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /ja.tys/
  • (proscribed) (aspirated h)

Noun

hiatus m (plural hiatus)

  1. hiatus, gap
    Synonym: lacune
  2. (phonetics) hiatus

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

  • hyātus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From hiō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /hiˈaː.tus/, [hiˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈa.tus/, [iˈäːt̪us]

Noun

hiātus m (genitive hiātūs); fourth declension

  1. A hiatus, opening, gap, aperture, cleft

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • hiantia

Descendants

  • → Catalan: hiat
  • → English: hiatus
  • → Italian: iato
  • → Portuguese: hiato
  • → Romanian: hiat
  • → Spanish: hiato

References

  • “hiatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hiatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hiatus 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)
  • hiatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

hiatus m (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of hiato

Romanian

Noun

hiatus n (plural hiatusuri)

  1. Alternative form of hiat

Source: wiktionary.org