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Is inane a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word inane is a Scrabble US word. The word inane is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is inane a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word inane is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word inane is a Words With Friends word. The word inane is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

INANE,

4-letter words (5 found)

AINE,EINA,NAIN,NANE,NINE,

3-letter words (9 found)

AIN,ANE,ANI,ANN,EAN,INN,NAE,NAN,NIE,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AI,AN,EA,EN,IN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from inane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of inane

inane

English

Etymology

From Middle French inane, from Latin inānis (“empty, vain, useless”) which is of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈneɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Adjective

inane (comparative inaner or more inane, superlative inanest or most inane)

  1. Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
    (lacking sense): Synonyms: silly, fatuous, vapid
  2. Purposeless; pointless.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

inane (plural inanes)

  1. That which is void or empty.

Anagrams

  • -anine, Annie, nenia

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inānis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈna.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ane
  • Hyphenation: i‧nà‧ne

Adjective

inane (plural inani) (literary)

  1. (rare) empty, void, hollow
    Synonyms: (literary) vacuo, vuoto
    Antonyms: colmo, pieno
  2. useless, vain, inane
    Synonyms: inconcludente, infruttuoso, inutile, (literary) irrito, vano
    Antonym: utile

Derived terms

  • inanità

Further reading

  • inane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • Ienna, nenia

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪˈnaː.nɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈnaː.ne]

Adjective

ināne

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of inānis

Noun

ināne n (genitive inānis); third declension

  1. empty space, void, open space
  2. emptiness, vanity, inanity

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

References

  • “inane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inānis.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: i‧na‧ne

Adjective

inane m or f (plural inanes)

  1. inane (lacking sense or meaning)
    Synonyms: vão, vazio, fútil

Related terms

  • inanição

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin inānis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈnane/ [iˈna.ne]
  • Rhymes: -ane
  • Syllabification: i‧na‧ne

Adjective

inane m or f (masculine and feminine plural inanes)

  1. inane; pointless

Related terms

Further reading

  • “inane”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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