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Yes. The word pallor is a Scrabble US word. The word pallor is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

PALLOR,

5-letter words (5 found)

LORAL,PAROL,POLAR,PORAL,PROLL,

4-letter words (8 found)

OLLA,OPAL,ORAL,PALL,POLL,PRAO,PROA,ROLL,

3-letter words (16 found)

ALL,ALP,APO,LAP,LAR,LOP,LOR,OAR,OPA,ORA,PAL,PAR,POA,POL,PRO,RAP,

2-letter words (8 found)

AL,AR,LA,LO,OP,OR,PA,PO,

You can make 38 words from pallor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pallor

pallor

Alternative forms

  • pallour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“look pale, blanch”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpælɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpælə/
  • Rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)

Noun

pallor (countable and uncountable, plural pallors)

  1. Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
    Synonyms: pallidity, wanness

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Further reading

  • pallor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “pallor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2005.
  • “pallor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “pallor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From palleō (“I am or look pale, blanch”) +‎ -or, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.lor/, [ˈpälːʲɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpal.lor/, [ˈpälːor]

Noun

pallor m (genitive pallōris); third declension

  1. a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
  2. (by extension) mustiness, moldiness, mildew
  3. (by extension) dimness, faintness
  4. (by extension) a disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness
  5. (figuratively) alarm, terror

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (mildew): rōbīgō
  • (paleness): aurūgō

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Descendants

  • → English: pallor
  • French: pâleur
  • Galician: balor
  • Italian: pallore
  • Portuguese: bolor, palor
  • Spanish: palor

References

  • “pallor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pallor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pallor 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)
  • pallor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pallor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pallor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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