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Is lanugo a Scrabble word?

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

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Is lanugo a Scrabble UK word?

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

L1A1N1U1G2O1

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Yes. The word lanugo is a Words With Friends word. The word lanugo is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

LANUGO,

5-letter words (6 found)

ALONG,ANGLO,GLUON,GUANO,LOGAN,LONGA,

4-letter words (16 found)

AGLU,AGON,GAOL,GAUN,GOAL,GUAN,GULA,LANG,LOAN,LONG,LOUN,LUNA,LUNG,NOUL,ULAN,ULNA,

3-letter words (18 found)

AGO,ALU,GAL,GAN,GAU,GNU,GOA,GON,GUL,GUN,LAG,LOG,LOU,LUG,LUN,NAG,NOG,NUG,

2-letter words (14 found)

AG,AL,AN,GO,GU,LA,LO,NA,NO,NU,ON,OU,UG,UN,

You can make 55 words from lanugo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lanugo

lanugo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

Noun

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

  1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.

Translations

Further reading

  • lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • lanugo (Q1540378)

Anagrams

  • Angulo, Lugano

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [laˈnuɡo]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -uɡo
  • Hyphenation: la‧nu‧go

Noun

lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

  1. down
  2. fluff

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō, derived from lāna (“wool”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -uɡo
  • Hyphenation: la‧nù‧go

Noun

lanugo f (uncountable)

  1. (biology) lanugo
    Synonym: lanugine

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • Lugano, a lungo, languo, nugola

Latin

Etymology

lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /laːˈnuː.ɡoː/, [ɫ̪äːˈnuːɡoː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/, [läˈnuːɡo]

Noun

lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension

  1. (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
  2. (transferred sense) sawdust

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (sawdust): scobis

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “lānūgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886/2.
  • “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lānūgō. Doublet of flanela and wełna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈnu.ɡɔ/
  • Rhymes: -uɡɔ
  • Syllabification: la‧nu‧go

Noun

lanugo n (indeclinable)

  1. (anatomy) lanugo

Further reading

  • lanugo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin [Term?] or French lanugo.

Noun

lanugo n (uncountable)

  1. lanugo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

lanugo m (uncountable)

  1. lanugo

Further reading

  • “lanugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org