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Is pruina a Scrabble word?

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

P3R1U1I1N1A1

Is pruina a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pruina is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

P3R1U1I1N1A1

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6-letter words (1 found)

PRUINA,

5-letter words (5 found)

NAIRU,PURIN,RUPIA,UNRIP,UPRAN,

4-letter words (16 found)

AIRN,NIPA,PAIN,PAIR,PIAN,PINA,PIRN,PRAU,PUIR,PUNA,PURI,RAIN,RANI,RAUN,RUIN,UNAI,

3-letter words (24 found)

AIN,AIR,ANI,NAP,NIP,NUR,PAN,PAR,PIA,PIN,PIR,PIU,PUN,PUR,RAI,RAN,RAP,RIA,RIN,RIP,RUN,UNI,URN,URP,

2-letter words (11 found)

AI,AN,AR,IN,NA,NU,PA,PI,UN,UP,UR,

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

Definitions and meaning of pruina

pruina

Noun

pruina

  1. (botany) A white powdery bloom found on some lichens

Related terms

  • pruinose
  • pruinosity

Anagrams

  • unipar, unpair

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with prūna (“a live coal”). More at freeze.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pruˈiː.na/, [pruˈiːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pruˈi.na/, [pruˈiːnä]

Noun

pruīna f (genitive pruīnae); first declension

  1. rime, hoarfrost

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pruina 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)
  • pruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

pruina f (plural pruinas)

  1. pruina

Further reading

  • “pruina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org