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Yes. The word pensum is a Scrabble US word. The word pensum is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

P3E1N1S1U1M3

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Yes. The word pensum is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

P3E1N1S1U1M3

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6-letter words (1 found)

PENSUM,

5-letter words (3 found)

MENUS,NEUMS,SPUME,

4-letter words (15 found)

EMUS,MENU,MEUS,MUNS,MUSE,NEPS,NEUM,PENS,PUNS,SPUE,SPUN,SUMP,SUPE,UMES,UMPS,

3-letter words (25 found)

EMS,EMU,ENS,MEN,MES,MEU,MUN,MUS,NEP,NUS,PEN,PES,PUN,PUS,SEN,SUE,SUM,SUN,SUP,UME,UMP,UMS,UNS,UPS,USE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EM,EN,ES,ME,MU,NE,NU,PE,UM,UN,UP,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 57 words from pensum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pensum

pensum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pensum. Doublet of peso.

Noun

pensum (plural pensums)

  1. (dated) A task or imposition set as a school punishment.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛnsɔm/, [ˈpʰɛnsɔm]

Noun

pensum n (singular definite pensummet, plural indefinite pensa)

  1. syllabus, curriculum
  2. task, assignment
  3. examination requirements

Inflection

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum. Doublet of poids, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛ̃.sɔm/

Noun

pensum m (plural pensums)

  1. (archaic) pensum (at school); lines (UK)
  2. chore

Further reading

  • “pensum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Neuter of past participle of pendō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.sum/, [ˈpẽːs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.sum/, [ˈpɛnsum]

Noun

pēnsum n (genitive pēnsī); second declension

  1. allotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day)
  2. work quota, a day’s work
  3. task, job, duty, assignment, engagement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

  • pēnsō

Descendants

Via Vulgar Latin *pēsum:

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛnsʉm/, [ˈpʰɛnsʉm]

Noun

pensum n (definite singular pensumet, indefinite plural pensa or pensumer, definite plural pensaene or pensuma or pensumene)

  1. syllabus, curriculum
  2. task, assignment
  3. examination requirements

References

  • “pensum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “pensum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

pensum n (definite singular pensumet, indefinite plural pensum, definite plural pensuma)

  1. syllabus, curriculum
  2. task, assignment
  3. examination requirements

Inflection

References

  • “pensum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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