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Yes. The word orchis is a Scrabble US word. The word orchis is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (4 found)

CHIROS,CHOIRS,ICHORS,ORCHIS,

5-letter words (8 found)

CHIRO,CHOIR,COIRS,CRIOS,HORIS,ICHOR,ROSHI,SIROC,

4-letter words (18 found)

CHIS,COIR,CORS,COSH,CRIS,HOIS,HORI,HORS,ICHS,ORCS,RHOS,RICH,ROCH,ROCS,SHIR,SHRI,SICH,SORI,

3-letter words (26 found)

CHI,CIS,COR,COS,HIC,HIS,HOC,HOI,HOS,ICH,IOS,ISH,ISO,OCH,OHS,OIS,ORC,ORS,RHO,ROC,SHO,SIC,SIR,SOC,SOH,SRI,

2-letter words (12 found)

CH,HI,HO,IO,IS,OH,OI,OR,OS,SH,SI,SO,

You can make 68 words from orchis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of orchis

orchis

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.kɪs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/

Noun

orchis (plural orchises or orchides or (archaic) orchisses)

  1. An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis. [from 16th c.]
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:
      He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
  2. (anatomy) A testis.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • orchid

Translations

References

  • “orchis” in Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary. (2012).

Anagrams

  • Orcish, Schiro, chiros, choirs, ichors, orcish

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis).

Pronunciation

Noun

orchis f (plural orchissen)

  1. An orchid; a plant of the family Orchidaceae
    Synonym: orchidee

Derived terms

Further reading

  • orchis on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

French

Etymology

Calque of translingual Orchis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔʁ.kis/

Noun

orchis m (plural orchis)

  1. (botany) orchis (Orchis)
    Hypernym: orchidée

Derived terms

References

  • “orchis” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
  • “orchis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kʰis/, [ˈɔrkʰɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kis/, [ˈɔrkis]

Noun

orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension

  1. orchid (flower)
  2. kind of olive

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

  • → English: orchis
  • → Translingual: Orchis
  • ⇒ New Latin: Orchideae, Orchidaceae
    • → Albanian: orkide
    • → Catalan: orquídia
    • → Czech: orchidea, orchidej
    • → English: orchid
    • → Finnish: orkidea
    • → French: orchidée
      • → German: Orchidee
        • → Dutch: orchidee
        • → Estonian: orhidee
      • → Malagasy: orkide
      • → Norwegian: orkidé
      • → Romanian: orhidee
      • → Swedish: orkidé
      • → Turkish: orkide
    • → Galician: orquídea
    • → Greek: ορχιδέα (orchidéa)
    • → Hungarian: orchidea
    • → Italian: orchidea
    • → Lithuanian: orchidėja
    • → Macedonian: орхидеја (orhideja)
    • → Polish: orchidea
    • → Portuguese: orquídea
    • → Russian: орхиде́я (orxidéja)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: орхидеја (orhideja)
    • → Slovene: orhideja
    • → Spanish: orquídea

References

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

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