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

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7-letter words (1 found)

PUERILE,

6-letter words (1 found)

PULIER,

5-letter words (9 found)

LEPER,PERIL,PILER,PLIER,PULER,PUREE,RELIE,REPEL,RUPEE,

4-letter words (34 found)

IURE,LEEP,LEER,LEIR,LERE,LERP,LIER,LIEU,LIPE,LIRE,LURE,PEEL,PEER,PELE,PERE,PERI,PIER,PILE,PIRL,PLIE,PLUE,PREE,PUER,PUIR,PULE,PULI,PURE,PURI,PURL,REEL,RIEL,RILE,RIPE,RULE,

3-letter words (28 found)

EEL,ERE,IRE,LEE,LEI,LEP,LEU,LIE,LIP,LUR,PEE,PEL,PER,PIE,PIR,PIU,PLU,PRE,PUL,PUR,REE,REI,REP,RIP,RUE,ULE,URE,URP,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EL,ER,LI,PE,PI,RE,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 83 words from puerile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of puerile

puerile

Etymology

From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊə.ɹaɪl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪl/, /ˈpjʊɹaɪl/

Adjective

puerile (comparative more puerile, superlative most puerile)

  1. Childish; trifling; silly.
    Synonyms: juvenile, silly, trifling; see also Thesaurus:childish, Thesaurus:insignificant
    • 1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor
      The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
    • 1930 July, West Kirby, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Preface (page 9 of the Dover 1968 reprint of L&FM and Star Maker):
      Today we should welcome, and even study, every serious attempt to envisage the future of our race, not merely to grasp the very diverse and often tragic possibilities that confront us, but also that we may familiarize ourselves with the certainty that many of our cherished ideals would seem puerile to more developed minds.
  2. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

  • puerilely
  • puerilism
  • puerility
  • puerilization

Translations

See also

  • boyish
  • yobbish
  • youthful

Anagrams

  • pie rule

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

puerile

  1. inflection of pueril:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin puerīlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pu.eˈri.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: pu‧e‧rì‧le

Adjective

puerile (plural puerili)

  1. puerile, childish, juvenile, boyish
  2. (rare, relational) children's, baby

Synonyms

  • infantile

Related terms

References

Anagrams

  • pelurie

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈriː.le/, [puɛˈriːɫ̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈri.le/, [pueˈriːle]

Adjective

puerīle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of puerīlis

References

  • puerile 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)

Swedish

Adjective

puerile

  1. definite natural masculine singular of pueril

Source: wiktionary.org