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Is quasi a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quasi is a Scrabble US word. The word quasi is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is quasi a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quasi is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

QUAIS,QUASI,

4-letter words (1 found)

QUAI,

3-letter words (7 found)

AIS,QIS,QUA,SAI,SAU,SUI,SUQ,

2-letter words (6 found)

AI,AS,IS,QI,SI,US,

You can make 16 words from quasi according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of quasi

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Definitions and meaning of quasi

quasi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/, /ˈkweɪ.saɪ/, /kwɑːzi/, /kwɑːsi/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːzi
  • Homophone: quasi-

Adjective

quasi (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or having a likeness to something.

Derived terms

  • quasi-

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkwa.zi]

Adverb

quasi

  1. almost, nearly, quasi
    Synonym: gairebé

Related terms

  • quasi-

Further reading

  • “quasi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “quasi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “quasi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “quasi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • (before 1996) kwasi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʋaːzi/

Adverb

quasi

  1. quasi

Synonyms

  • alsof

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.zi/

Adverb

quasi

  1. almost, nearly
    Synonym: presque

Further reading

  • “quasi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • quais

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkvaːzi/, [ˈkʋaːzi]

Adverb

quasi

  1. as it were, so to speak, effectively, essentially
    Synonyms: gewissermaßen, gleichsam, sozusagen

Further reading

  • “quasi” in Duden online
  • “quasi” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

From Latin quasi. The final -i hints towards the word being borrowed or semi-learned, but it's not uncommon for Italian to shift final -e to -i (cf. avanti, dieci, tardi, etc.).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwa.zi/
  • Rhymes: -azi
  • Hyphenation: quà‧si

Adverb

quasi

  1. almost, nearly
    Synonyms: circa, poco meno che, pressoché, per poco non

Adjective

quasi (invariable)

  1. almost

Conjunction

quasi

  1. (with subj.) as if
    Synonym: quasiché

Derived terms

  • quasiché
  • quasimente
  • quasi quasi

Latin

Etymology

Univerbation of quam (“how, as”) +‎ sī (“if”) with clitic shortening of the first vowel and iambic shortening of the second.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.si/, [ˈkʷäs̠ɪ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.si/, [ˈkwäːs̬i]
  • Note: still found with the long final syllable in Lucretius, and again in late Latin poets.

Conjunction

quasi

  1. (almost) as if, like
    Synonyms: ceu, (perinde) ac sī, tanquam, velut, ut, sīcut
    quasi vērō nesciam! ― as if I don't know!

Descendants

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quasi”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1428

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Adverb

quasi

  1. almost, nearly

Portuguese

Adverb

quasi (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of quase

Source: wiktionary.org