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Is kris a Scrabble word?

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

K5R1I1S1

Is kris a Scrabble UK word?

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

K5R1I1S1

Is kris a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word kris is a Words With Friends word. The word kris is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

IRKS,KIRS,KRIS,RISK,

3-letter words (7 found)

IRK,KIR,KIS,SIK,SIR,SKI,SRI,

2-letter words (3 found)

IS,KI,SI,

You can make 14 words from kris according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of kris

kris rkis kirs ikrs riks irks krsi rksi ksri skri rski srki kisr iksr ksir skir iskr sikr risk irsk rsik srik isrk sirk

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

Definitions and meaning of kris

kris

Alternative forms

  • crease, creese, creeze, crese, cress, cris, criss, crys, cryse, keris, kreese, kriss

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.

Noun

kris (plural krises or krisses)

  1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

Descendants

  • → Serbo-Croatian: kris

Verb

kris (third-person singular simple present krises, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)

  1. (transitive) To stab with a kris.

See also

  • kalis

Anagrams

  • Risk, irks, kirs, riks, risk

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦶꦱ꧀ (keris), from Old Javanese kĕris, kris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krɪs/
  • Hyphenation: kris
  • Rhymes: -ɪs
  • Homophone: Chris

Noun

kris f or m (plural krissen)

  1. kris (Indonesian or Malay with a wavy blade)

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσι (krísi, “judgement, decision”).

Noun

kris f (nominative plural krisa)

  1. (law) trial

References

Further reading

  • Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2002 November) “Kris”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎[1], Wien, archived from the original on 19 August 2021

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krîːs/

Noun

krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)

  1. kris

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

kris c

  1. crisis (unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • kris in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

  • riks-, risk, skri

Source: wiktionary.org