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Yes. The word plica is a Scrabble US word. The word plica is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

PICAL,PLICA,

4-letter words (11 found)

CALP,CAPI,CLAP,CLIP,LAIC,LIPA,PAIL,PALI,PIAL,PICA,PILA,

3-letter words (11 found)

AIL,ALP,CAL,CAP,LAC,LAP,LIP,PAC,PAL,PIA,PIC,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AL,LA,LI,PA,PI,

You can make 30 words from plica according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of plica

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Definitions and meaning of plica

plica

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Latin plicare (“to fold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplaɪkə/

Noun

plica (countable and uncountable, plural plicas or plicae)

  1. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
  2. Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
  3. (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
  4. (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
  5. (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.

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Anagrams

  • icpal

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin plica, a derivative of Classical Latin plicō (“I fold, bend or flex; I roll up”). Compare Sicilian chica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpli.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: plì‧ca

Noun

plica f (plural pliche)

  1. (literally and figuratively, obsolete or literary) fold
  2. (diplomacy, historical) a fold made in a document at the level where the seal is
  3. (anatomy) Synonym of piega (“plica, fold”)
  4. (music, historical, neumatic notation) liquescent neume

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Further reading

  • plica1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • plica2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

plicā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of plicō

References

  • plica 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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