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Yes. The word puerpera is a Scrabble US word. The word puerpera is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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8-letter words (1 found)

PUERPERA,

7-letter words (3 found)

PAPERER,PREPARE,REPAPER,

6-letter words (7 found)

PARURE,PAUPER,RAPPEE,RAPPER,REAPER,REPURE,UPREAR,

5-letter words (15 found)

ARERE,PAPER,PARER,PAREU,PEARE,PEREA,PUPAE,PUREE,PURER,RAPER,RAPPE,RAREE,RUPEE,UPPER,URARE,

4-letter words (25 found)

APER,PAPE,PARE,PARP,PARR,PEAR,PEEP,PEER,PERE,PERP,PRAU,PREE,PREP,PUER,PUPA,PURE,PURR,RAPE,RARE,REAP,REAR,REPP,RUER,RURP,UREA,

3-letter words (24 found)

APE,APP,ARE,AUE,EAR,EAU,ERA,ERE,ERR,PAP,PAR,PEA,PEE,PEP,PER,PRE,PUP,PUR,RAP,REE,REP,RUE,URE,URP,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AR,EA,EE,ER,PA,PE,RE,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 86 words from puerpera according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of puerpera

puerpera

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) +‎ pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pjuˈɜː.pə.ɹə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pjuˈɝ.pəɹ.ə/

Noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

  1. (obstetrics) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
  2. (rare) A woman who has recently given birth.

Derived terms

  • puerperal

Translations

References

  • “puerpera”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Italian

Noun

puerpera f (plural puerpere)

  1. a woman who has just given birth

Related terms

  • puerperio

Latin

Etymology 1

Substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“boy, child”) +‎ pariō (“to bear, give birth”) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.ra/, [puˈɛrpɛrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.ra/, [puˈɛrperä]

Noun

puerpera f (genitive puerperae); first declension

  1. woman in labor or in childbed, lying-in woman
Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • puerperium
Descendants
  • Spanish: puérpera
  • Portuguese: puérpera
  • → English: puerpera
  • → German: Puerpera

References

  • puerpera 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)
  • “puerperus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • puerpera: (Classical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.ra/, [puˈɛrpɛrä]
  • puerpera: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.ra/, [puˈɛrperä]
  • puerperā: (Classical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.raː/, [puˈɛrpɛräː]
  • puerperā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /puˈer.pe.ra/, [puˈɛrperä]

Adjective

puerpera

  1. inflection of puerperus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

puerperā

  1. ablative feminine singular of puerperus

Source: wiktionary.org