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Is malacia a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word malacia is a Scrabble US word. The word malacia is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

M3A1L1A1C3I1A1

Is malacia a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word malacia is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

M3A1L1A1C3I1A1

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7-letter words (1 found)

MALACIA,

6-letter words (3 found)

CALAMI,CALIMA,CAMAIL,

5-letter words (3 found)

CLAIM,LAMIA,MALIC,

4-letter words (16 found)

ACAI,ALMA,AMIA,AMLA,CALM,CAMA,CAMI,CLAM,LAIC,LAMA,LIMA,MACA,MAIL,MALA,MALI,MICA,

3-letter words (17 found)

AAL,AIA,AIL,AIM,ALA,AMA,AMI,CAA,CAL,CAM,LAC,LAM,MAA,MAC,MAL,MIC,MIL,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AI,AL,AM,LA,LI,MA,MI,

You can make 48 words from malacia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of malacia

malacia

Etymology

From Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “softness, sickness”).

Noun

malacia (countable and uncountable, plural malacias)

  1. (medicine, pathology) Abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body. [from 19th c.]
  2. (medicine, obsolete) An abnormal craving for certain types of food. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “malacia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

  • Calamia

Italian

Etymology

From Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “softness, sickness”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.laˈt͡ʃi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ma‧la‧cì‧a

Noun

malacia f (plural malacie)

  1. (pathology) malacia

Derived terms

  • osteomalacia

Anagrams

  • Calamai, Calamia, calamai, lamaica

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “softness”), from μᾰλᾰκός (malakós, “soft”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈla.ki.a/, [mäˈɫ̪äkiä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈla.t͡ʃi.a/, [mäˈläːt͡ʃiä]

Noun

malacia f (genitive malaciae); first declension

  1. a calm at sea, dead calm
  2. (medicine) loss of appetite, nausea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

  • “malacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “malacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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