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Is ludo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ludo is a Scrabble US word. The word ludo is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

L1U1D2O1

Is ludo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ludo is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

L1U1D2O1

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4-letter words (3 found)

LOUD,LUDO,OULD,

3-letter words (8 found)

DOL,DUO,LOD,LOU,LUD,OLD,OUD,UDO,

2-letter words (4 found)

DO,LO,OD,OU,

You can make 15 words from ludo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ludo

ludo

English

Noun

ludo (plural ludos)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ludo.

Anagrams

  • Loud, loud, ould

Esperanto

Etymology

From ludi (“to play”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈludo/
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: lu‧do

Noun

ludo (accusative singular ludon, plural ludoj, accusative plural ludojn)

  1. game

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

From ludar (“to play”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈludo/
  • Hyphenation: lu‧do

Noun

ludo (plural ludi)

  1. playing, game
  2. gambling
    Synonym: ludrisko

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lūdus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.do/
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: lù‧do

Noun

ludo m (plural ludi)

  1. game, sport
  2. pastime

Anagrams

  • duol

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫuː.doː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈluː.d̪o]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *loidō, from an o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to play”), perhaps reduplicated present *lé-loyd-ti ~ *lé-lid-n̥ti through dissimilation. Cognate with Ancient Greek λίζω (lízō, “to play”).

Verb

lūdō (present infinitive lūdere, perfect active lūsī, supine lūsum); third conjugation

  1. to play (a game or sport)
    Synonym: iocor
  2. to frolic, behave playfully
  3. to practice, amuse oneself with
  4. to sport, play amorously
  5. to mock, mimic
  6. to tease, ridicule
  7. to deceive, delude, trick, take advantage of
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: Ludo, ludicrous
  • Esperanto: ludi
  • Italian: ludere, ludico
  • Spanish: lúdico, luir, ludir
  • French: ludique

References

Further reading

  • “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ludo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

lūdō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of lūdus

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lûːdo/
  • Hyphenation: lu‧do

Adverb

lȗdo (Cyrillic spelling лу̑до)

  1. crazily, insanely

Related terms

  • ludnica
  • lud

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈludo/ [ˈlu.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Syllabification: lu‧do

Etymology 1

Noun

ludo m (uncountable)

  1. (South America) Ludo
    Synonym: parchís

Etymology 2

Verb

ludo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ludir

Further reading

  • “ludo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Source: wiktionary.org