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

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

MEATUS,MUTASE,

5-letter words (11 found)

AMUSE,MATES,MAUTS,MEATS,MUSET,MUTES,SATEM,SAUTE,STEAM,TAMES,TEAMS,

4-letter words (46 found)

AMES,AMUS,ATES,EAST,EATS,EAUS,EMUS,ETAS,MAES,MASE,MAST,MASU,MATE,MATS,MAUT,MEAT,MESA,META,METS,MEUS,MUSE,MUST,MUTE,MUTS,SAME,SATE,SAUT,SEAM,SEAT,SETA,SMUT,STEM,STUM,SUET,TAES,TAME,TAMS,TASE,TAUS,TEAM,TEAS,TEMS,TUMS,UMES,UTAS,UTES,

3-letter words (42 found)

AME,AMU,ATE,ATS,AUE,EAS,EAT,EAU,EMS,EMU,EST,ETA,MAE,MAS,MAT,MES,MET,MEU,MUS,MUT,SAE,SAM,SAT,SAU,SEA,SET,SMA,SUE,SUM,TAE,TAM,TAS,TAU,TEA,TES,TUM,UME,UMS,USE,UTA,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AM,AS,AT,EA,EM,ES,ET,MA,ME,MU,ST,TA,TE,UM,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 119 words from meatus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of meatus

meatus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /miˈeɪ.təs/
  • (plural) (General American) IPA(key): /miˈeɪ.təs/, /miˈeɪˌtus/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtəs

Noun

meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)

  1. (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
    Hyponyms: acoustic meatus, urinary meatus
  2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.
    Synonym: ear canal

Derived terms

  • external auditory meatus
  • meatal
  • meato-
  • permeate

Translations

See also

  • ear canal
  • foramen

Further reading

  • “meatus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “meatus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Matsue, autems, mutase

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈaː.tus/, [meˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈa.tus/, [meˈäːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of meō (“to go, to pass”).

Participle

meātus (feminine meāta, neuter meātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. perfect passive participle of meō
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Related terms
  • commeātus
  • intrameātus
  • permeātus
  • remeātus

Etymology 2

From meō (“to go, pass”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

meātus m (genitive meātūs); fourth declension

  1. (literal) a going, passing, motion, course
  2. (transferred sense) a way, path, passage
    1. the avenues of sensation in the body
Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org