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Yes. The word mino is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3I1N1O1

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4-letter words (1 found)

MINO,

3-letter words (5 found)

ION,MOI,MON,NIM,NOM,

2-letter words (8 found)

IN,IO,MI,MO,NO,OI,OM,ON,

You can make 14 words from mino according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mino

mino

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪnəʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɪnoʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
  • Homophone: minnow

Noun

mino (plural mino)

  1. (historical) A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.

Etymology 2

Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnoʊ/

Noun

mino (plural minos)

  1. Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
Derived terms
  • mino bird

Anagrams

  • Moni, omni, omni-

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈmi.nu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmi.no]

Verb

mino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmino/ [ˈmi.n̪o]
  • Hyphenation: mi‧no

Noun

mino

  1. (folklore) a magic spell cast, by a supernatural being, to confuse, disorient or make people lose their way

Verb

mino

  1. (folklore) to disorient; to become lost

Esperanto

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmino/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: mi‧no

Noun

mino (accusative singular minon, plural minoj, accusative plural minojn)

  1. mine (place where ores or minerals are mined)
    Synonym: minejo

Faliscan

Etymology

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Cognate with Latin minor.

Adjective

mino (feminine mino)

  1. smaller
  2. younger

French

Noun

mino m (plural minos)

  1. alternative spelling of minot (“kid”)

Italian

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.no/

Verb

mino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of minare

Anagrams

  • -nimo, nimo, nomi

Javanese

Noun

mino

  1. nonstandard spelling of mina

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɪ.noː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.no]

Etymology 1

    Collateral form of minor (“threaten, goad”). Attested in sense 1 from the second century CE in Apuleius. Sense 2 is found in numerous later works.

    Verb

    minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation

    1. to drive or goad (animals)
    2. to drive or lead (people) (Late Latin)
    Conjugation
    Derived terms
    • amoenus
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

      From mina f (“ore, mine”) +‎ -ō (denominative verb suffix), from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

      Verb

      minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

      1. to mine
      2. to sap, undermine
      Conjugation

      References

      • R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “minare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
      • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “minare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 682

      Further reading

      • “mino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • "mino", 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)
      • mino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

      Polish

      Etymology

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈmi.nɔ/
      • Rhymes: -inɔ
      • Syllabification: mi‧no

      Noun

      mino f

      1. vocative singular of mina

      Portuguese

      Etymology

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      mino

      1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

      Spanish

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈmino/ [ˈmi.no]
      • Rhymes: -ino
      • Syllabification: mi‧no

      Etymology 1

      Borrowed from Lunfardo [Term?].

      Noun

      mino m (plural minos, feminine mina, feminine plural minas)

      1. (Rioplatense) man, especially an attractive one
      2. (Chile) boy

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

      mino

      1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

      Further reading

      • “mino”, 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

      Tumbuka

      Etymology

      From Proto-Bantu *màjínò.

      Noun

      mino class 6

      1. plural of jino

      Source: wiktionary.org