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Is onyx a Scrabble word?

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

O1N1Y4X8

Is onyx a Scrabble UK word?

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

O1N1Y4X8

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4-letter words (1 found)

ONYX,

3-letter words (5 found)

NOX,NOY,ONY,OXY,YON,

2-letter words (6 found)

NO,NY,ON,OX,OY,YO,

You can make 12 words from onyx according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of onyx

onyx

English

Etymology

From Middle English onix (c. 1300), earlier oniche (c. 1250), from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “onyx”). Doublet of unguis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɒnɪks/
  • Rhymes: -ɒnɪks

Noun

onyx (countable and uncountable, plural onyxes)

  2. (mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
  3. A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
  4. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.

Derived terms

  • onyx marble

Translations

Adjective

onyx (not comparable)

  1. jet-black
    • , Genesis, 2:12
      And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

See also

  • sardonyx

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔ.nyks]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.niks]

Noun

onyx m (genitive onychis); third declension

  1. onyx, yellow marble
  2. A yellowish precious stone
  3. The female of a mussel of the scallop species

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • “onyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “onyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “onyx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “onyx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

onyx

  1. Alternative form of oniche

Portuguese

Noun

onyx m (invariable)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ónix.

Source: wiktionary.org