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Yes. The word puerperium is a Scrabble US word. The word puerperium is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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10-letter words (1 found)

PUERPERIUM,

7-letter words (8 found)

EREMURI,IMPURER,PREMIER,PRIMEUR,PURPURE,REMUEUR,REPRIME,RUMPIER,

6-letter words (15 found)

EMPIRE,EPIMER,IMPURE,MERRIE,MURREE,PERMIE,PREMIE,PRIMER,PUIRER,PUMPER,PURPIE,REPUMP,REPURE,RIPPER,UMPIRE,

5-letter words (16 found)

EMURE,MERER,MURRE,MURRI,PIPER,PRIER,PRIME,PRIMP,PUMIE,PUREE,PURER,RIMER,RIPER,RUPEE,UMPIE,UPPER,

4-letter words (42 found)

EMEU,EMIR,IURE,MEER,MERE,MERI,MIRE,MUIR,MURE,MURR,PEEP,PEER,PERE,PERI,PERM,PERP,PIER,PIMP,PIPE,PIUM,PREE,PREM,PREP,PRIM,PUER,PUIR,PUMP,PUPU,PURE,PURI,PURR,REPP,RIEM,RIME,RIMU,RIPE,RIPP,RUER,RUME,RUMP,RURP,RURU,

3-letter words (33 found)

EME,EMU,ERE,ERM,ERR,IMP,IRE,MEE,MEU,MIR,PEE,PEP,PER,PIE,PIP,PIR,PIU,PRE,PUP,PUR,REE,REI,REM,REP,RIM,RIP,RUE,RUM,UME,UMP,UMU,URE,URP,

2-letter words (12 found)

EE,EM,ER,ME,MI,MU,PE,PI,RE,UM,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 128 words from puerperium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of puerperium

puerperium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpju.əˈpɪə.ɹi.əm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpju.ɚˈpɪɹ.i.əm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

puerperium (plural puerperia)

  1. (obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.

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Translations

References

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

Anagrams

  • pure-impure

Latin

Etymology

From puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.erˈpe.ri.um/, [puɛrˈpɛriʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.erˈpe.ri.um/, [puerˈpɛːrium]

Noun

puerperium n (genitive puerperiī or puerperī); second declension

  1. childbirth, delivery, childbed, confinement, lying-in
  2. newborn child, infant

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Descendants

  • → Italian: puerperio
  • → English: puerperium

References

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

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