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Is inertia a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word inertia is a Scrabble US word. The word inertia is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is inertia a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word inertia is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

INERTIA,

6-letter words (5 found)

INTIRE,RATINE,RETAIN,RETINA,TINIER,

5-letter words (17 found)

ANTRE,EARNT,ENTIA,INERT,INTER,INTRA,IRATE,NITER,NITRE,RAINE,RETIA,RIANT,TENIA,TERAI,TINEA,TRAIN,TRINE,

4-letter words (41 found)

AINE,AIRN,AIRT,ANTE,ANTI,ARET,ARTI,EARN,EINA,ETNA,INIA,INTI,NARE,NEAR,NEAT,NITE,RAIN,RAIT,RANI,RANT,RATE,REAN,REIN,RENT,RINE,RITE,TAIN,TANE,TARE,TARN,TEAR,TEIN,TERN,TIAN,TIAR,TIER,TINA,TINE,TIRE,TRIE,TRIN,

3-letter words (39 found)

AIN,AIR,AIT,ANE,ANI,ANT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAN,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERN,ETA,IRE,ITA,NAE,NAT,NET,NIE,NIT,RAI,RAN,RAT,REI,REN,RET,RIA,RIN,RIT,TAE,TAI,TAN,TAR,TEA,TEN,TIE,TIN,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AI,AN,AR,AT,EA,EN,ER,ET,IN,IT,NA,NE,RE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 121 words from inertia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of inertia

inertia

Etymology

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). The modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/, /ɪˈnɜː.ʃə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/, /ɪˈnɝ.ʃə/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃə

Noun

inertia (countable and uncountable, plural inertias or inertiae or inertiæ)

  1. (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  2. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  3. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Synonyms

  • (unwillingness to take action): idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

Derived terms

Related terms

  • inert
  • inertness

Translations

Further reading

  • “inertia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “inertia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “inertia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • iranite

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin inertia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈinertiɑ/, [ˈine̞rˌt̪iɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): i‧ner‧ti‧a

Noun

inertia

  1. inertia
    Synonyms: hitaus, vitka, jatkavuus

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “inertia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enartjā. Related to iners (“without skill; inactive”), from in- (“not”) + ars (“art, skill”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /iˈner.ti.a/, [ɪˈnɛrt̪iä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈner.t͡si.a/, [iˈnɛrt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

inertia f (genitive inertiae); first declension

  1. want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance
    Antonyms: calliditās, sapientia
  2. (by extension) inactivity, idleness, laziness, indolence
    Synonyms: pigritia, sēgnitia, ignāvia, dēsidia, sōcordia, ōtium
    Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

  • iners
  • inersitūdō
  • inerticulus

Descendants

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

inertia m (definite singular inertiaen, indefinite plural inertiaer, definite plural inertiaene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by inerti

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