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Is prex a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word prex is a Scrabble US word. The word prex is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is prex a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word prex is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

P3R1E1X8

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Yes. The word prex is a Words With Friends word. The word prex is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

PREX,

3-letter words (4 found)

PER,PRE,REP,REX,

2-letter words (4 found)

ER,EX,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from prex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of prex

prex rpex perx eprx repx erpx prxe rpxe pxre xpre rxpe xrpe pexr epxr pxer xper expr xepr rexp erxp rxep xrep exrp xerp

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Definitions and meaning of prex

prex

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛks

Etymology 1

From US college slang; from 1828.

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

  1. (US, university slang) A president, especially of a university.
Synonyms
  • (president, especially of a university): prexy

Etymology 2

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

  1. Abbreviation of prefix.

References

Anagrams

  • XPer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /preks/, [prɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /preks/, [prɛks]

Noun

prex f (genitive precis); third declension

  1. prayer; request
    Synonyms: vōtum, rogātiō, precātiō, petītiō, postulātum
  2. entreaty
    Synonyms: rogātiō, supplicium

Declension

  • The nominative singular, prex, and genitive singular, precis, are unattested in Classical Latin.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • precārius
  • precor

Related terms

  • procō
  • procor
  • procāx

Descendants

  • Italian: prece
  • Portuguese: prece

References

  • “prex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “prex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • prex 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)
  • prex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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