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Yes. The word horizon is a Scrabble US word. The word horizon is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

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Is horizon a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word horizon is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

HORIZON,

6-letter words (1 found)

ZORINO,

5-letter words (2 found)

HONOR,RHINO,

4-letter words (14 found)

HOON,HOOR,HORI,HORN,INRO,IRON,NOIR,NORI,ORZO,ROIN,RONZ,ROON,ZOON,ZORI,

3-letter words (20 found)

HIN,HOI,HON,HOO,ION,NOH,NOO,NOR,OHO,ONO,OOH,OON,OOR,RHO,RIN,RIZ,ROO,ZHO,ZIN,ZOO,

2-letter words (11 found)

HI,HO,IN,IO,NO,OH,OI,ON,OO,OR,ZO,

You can make 49 words from horizon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of horizon

horizon

Etymology

From Old French orizon, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, boundary).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /həˈɹaɪ.zən/

Noun

horizon (plural horizons)

  1. The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
    Synonyms: skysill, skyline
  2. (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
  3. The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
  4. (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
  5. (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
  6. Any level line or surface.
  7. (chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • horizontal
  • aorist

Translations

See also

  • vertical

Further reading

  • horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, boundary).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦoː.ri.zɔn/

Noun

horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)

  1. horizon
    Synonyms: kim, einder

Descendants

  • Indonesian: horizon
  • Papiamentu: hórizòn

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, boundary).

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/
  • Homophone: horizons
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

Noun

horizon m (plural horizons)

  1. horizon

Derived terms

  • bleu horizon
  • élargir ses horizons
  • horizon des événements
  • horizon rationnel
  • horizon sensible
  • horizonner
  • horizontal
  • ligne d’horizon
  • tour d’horizon

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch horizon, from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, boundary).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hoˈrizɔn]
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

Noun

horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)

  1. horizon:
    1. the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.
      Synonyms: kaki langit, ufuk, cakrawala
    2. (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
  2. (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space
    Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara

Compounds

Further reading

  • “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /hoˈriz.zoːn/, [hɔˈrɪz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈrid.d͡zon/, [oˈrid̪ː͡z̪on]

Noun

horizōn m (genitive horizontis); third declension

  1. horizon

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).

Descendants

References

  • horizon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Limburgish

Noun

horizon f

  1. Veldeke spelling spelling of Hooriṣǫn

Source: wiktionary.org