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Yes. The word onycha is a Scrabble US word. The word onycha is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word onycha is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

O1N1Y4C3H4A1

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6-letter words (1 found)

ONYCHA,

5-letter words (3 found)

ANCHO,CYANO,NACHO,

4-letter words (12 found)

ACHY,AHOY,CANY,CHAO,CHAY,CHON,CONY,CYAN,HOYA,NACH,NOAH,NYAH,

3-letter words (23 found)

ACH,ANY,CAN,CAY,CHA,CON,COY,HAN,HAO,HAY,HOA,HOC,HON,HOY,NAH,NAY,NOH,NOY,OCA,OCH,ONY,YAH,YON,

2-letter words (14 found)

AH,AN,AY,CH,HA,HO,NA,NO,NY,OH,ON,OY,YA,YO,

You can make 53 words from onycha according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of onycha

onycha

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin onycha.

Noun

onycha (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
  2. (obsolete) The precious stone onyx.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux) standing in the Book of Exodus 30, 34, in the accusative, translating in the Septuaginta Biblical Hebrew שְׁחֵלֶת (šəḥēleṯ).

Noun

onycha f (genitive onychae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. onycha, the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked ritually and medicinally
    Synonyms: unguis odōrātus, blatta byzantīna, blatta byzantia, opercula cochleārum

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  • onycha 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)

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