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Is minutia a Scrabble word?

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

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Is minutia a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is minutia a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word minutia is a Words With Friends word. The word minutia is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

MINUTIA,

6-letter words (2 found)

INTIMA,MANITU,

5-letter words (4 found)

ANIMI,MATIN,TAMIN,TUINA,

4-letter words (24 found)

AITU,AMIN,ANTI,AUNT,INIA,INTI,MAIN,MANI,MAUN,MAUT,MINA,MINI,MINT,MUNI,MUNT,MUTI,NAMU,TAIN,TIAN,TINA,TUAN,TUNA,UNAI,UNIT,

3-letter words (28 found)

AIM,AIN,AIT,AMI,AMU,ANI,ANT,ITA,MAN,MAT,MNA,MUN,MUT,NAM,NAT,NIM,NIT,NUT,TAI,TAM,TAN,TAU,TIN,TUI,TUM,TUN,UNI,UTA,

2-letter words (16 found)

AI,AM,AN,AT,IN,IT,MA,MI,MU,NA,NU,TA,TI,UM,UN,UT,

You can make 75 words from minutia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of minutia

minutia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɪˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/, /məˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/

Noun

minutia (plural minutiae or minutiæ)

  1. A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
    They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
  2. (biometrics, forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

  • minūtiēs

Etymology

From minūtus (“diminished”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /miˈnuː.ti.a/, [mɪˈnuːt̪iä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈnut.t͡si.a/, [miˈnut̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

minūtia f (genitive minūtiae); first declension

  1. smallness, minuteness
  2. small thing, trifle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “minutia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • minutia 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)
  • minutia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org