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

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Yes. The word pluteus is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (2 found)

PLUTEUS,PUSTULE,

6-letter words (2 found)

LETUPS,TUPLES,

5-letter words (17 found)

LETUP,LUPUS,LUTES,PELTS,PLUES,PULES,PULSE,PULUS,PUSLE,SETUP,SLEPT,SPELT,SPULE,STUPE,TULES,TUPLE,UPSET,

4-letter words (34 found)

ELTS,LEPS,LEPT,LEST,LETS,LUES,LUST,LUTE,PELS,PELT,PEST,PETS,PLUE,PLUS,PULE,PULS,PULU,PUTS,SEPT,SLUE,SLUT,SPET,SPUE,STEP,SUET,SULU,SUPE,TELS,TULE,TUPS,ULES,ULUS,UTES,UTUS,

3-letter words (29 found)

ELS,ELT,EST,LEP,LES,LET,LEU,PEL,PES,PET,PLU,PST,PUL,PUS,PUT,SEL,SET,SUE,SUP,TEL,TES,TUP,ULE,ULU,UPS,USE,UTE,UTS,UTU,

2-letter words (9 found)

EL,ES,ET,PE,ST,TE,UP,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 94 words from pluteus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pluteus

pluteus

Etymology

Latin pluteus

Noun

pluteus (plural pluteuses or plutei)

  1. (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
  2. (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.

Anagrams

  • pustule

Latin

Alternative forms

  • pluteum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (“cross-beam”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plauts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (“flotsam”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.te.us/, [ˈpɫ̪ʊt̪eʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.te.us/, [ˈpluːt̪eus]

Noun

pluteus m (genitive pluteī); second declension

  1. A form of protective shed or breastwork.
  2. A moveable screen.
  3. A bookcase, bookshelf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

  • “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pluteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pluteus 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)
  • pluteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pluteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pluteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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