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Is lignum a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lignum is a Scrabble US word. The word lignum is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is lignum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lignum is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

L1I1G2N1U1M3

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6-letter words (2 found)

LIGNUM,MULING,

5-letter words (3 found)

LINUM,LUNGI,ULMIN,

4-letter words (10 found)

GLIM,GLUM,IGLU,LIMN,LING,LUNG,MING,MUIL,MUNG,MUNI,

3-letter words (19 found)

GIN,GNU,GUL,GUM,GUN,ING,LIG,LIN,LUG,LUM,LUN,MIG,MIL,MUG,MUN,NIL,NIM,NUG,UNI,

2-letter words (10 found)

GI,GU,IN,LI,MI,MU,NU,UG,UM,UN,

You can make 44 words from lignum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lignum

lignum

Noun

lignum (countable and uncountable, plural lignums)

  1. A perennial shrub, Duma florulenta, native to semiarid areas of inland Australia.
  2. Land covered by lignum.

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Anagrams

  • muling

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *legnom, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-no-m (“that which is collected”), from *leǵ- (“to collect”), with the Italic form interpreted as "wood collected for firemaking".

An alternative derivation from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”), and associated interpretation as "stray wood", seems equally possible, phonetically and semantically.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliɡ.num/, [ˈlʲɪŋnʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈliɲ.ɲum/, [ˈliɲːum]

Noun

lignum n (genitive lignī); second declension

  1. firewood
  2. (later Latin) wood tissue
  3. tree

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

Several forms inherited from the plural ligna, reinterpreted as a feminine singular noun.

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org