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Is ingenue a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ingenue is a Scrabble US word. The word ingenue is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is ingenue a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ingenue is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is ingenue a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word ingenue is a Words With Friends word. The word ingenue is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

GENUINE,INGENUE,

6-letter words (2 found)

ENGINE,INGENU,

5-letter words (3 found)

EIGNE,ENNUI,GENIE,

4-letter words (8 found)

EINE,EUGE,GENE,GENU,GIEN,GINN,NENE,NINE,

3-letter words (18 found)

EEN,ENE,ENG,GEE,GEN,GIE,GIN,GNU,GUE,GUN,ING,INN,NEE,NEG,NIE,NUG,NUN,UNI,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EN,GI,GU,IN,NE,NU,UG,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 43 words from ingenue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ingenue

ingenue

Alternative forms

  • ingénue

Etymology

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑnʒənu/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌænʒeɪˈnjuː/

Noun

ingenue (plural ingenues)

  1. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
  2. (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
    Hypernym: stock character
    Coordinate terms: girl next door, femme fatale, damsel in distress
  3. (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.

Usage notes

The corresponding masculine term, ingenu, is poorly known, and so the feminine term is sometimes used in a gender-neutral or masculine way. (See the 2002 citation, where the explicit masculine French is feminized in English.)

Related terms

  • ingenu, ingenuous

Translations

Further reading

  • ingénue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Guienne, eugenin, genuine, unigene

Italian

Adjective

ingenue f pl

  1. feminine plural of ingenuo

Noun

ingenue f

  1. plural of ingenua

Anagrams

  • genuine, unigene

Latin

Adjective

ingenue

  1. vocative masculine singular of ingenuus

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org