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Is ibex a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ibex is a Scrabble US word. The word ibex is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is ibex a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ibex is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

I1B3E1X8

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Yes. The word ibex is a Words With Friends word. The word ibex is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

IBEX,

2-letter words (4 found)

BE,BI,EX,XI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from ibex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ibex

ibex biex iebx eibx beix ebix ibxe bixe ixbe xibe bxie xbie iexb eixb ixeb xieb exib xeib bexi ebxi bxei xbei exbi xebi

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ibex. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ibex.

Definitions and meaning of ibex

ibex

Etymology

From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/
  • Rhymes: -aɪbɛks

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

  1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
  2. (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Xibe, exbi-

Latin

Etymology

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps, as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.beks/, [ˈiːbɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.beks/, [ˈiːbeks]

Noun

ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension

  1. chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

  • Asturian: robizu, rebezu
  • English: ibex
  • Galician: rebezo
  • Romanian: ibex
  • Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ibex.

Noun

ibex m (plural ibecși)

  1. ibex

Declension

Spanish

Noun

ibex m (plural ibex)

  1. ibex

Source: wiktionary.org