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Is redux a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word redux is a Scrabble US word. The word redux is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is redux a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word redux is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Yes. The word redux is a Words With Friends word. The word redux is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

REDUX,

4-letter words (4 found)

DURE,RUDE,RUED,URDE,

3-letter words (10 found)

DEX,DUE,DUX,RED,REX,RUD,RUE,URD,URE,XED,

2-letter words (7 found)

DE,ED,ER,EX,RE,UR,XU,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from redux according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of redux

redux erdux rdeux dreux edrux derux reudx erudx ruedx uredx eurdx uerdx rduex druex rudex urdex durex udrex edurx deurx eudrx uedrx duerx uderx redxu erdxu rdexu drexu edrxu derxu rexdu erxdu rxedu xredu exrdu xerdu rdxeu drxeu rxdeu xrdeu dxreu xdreu edxru dexru exdru xedru dxeru xderu reuxd eruxd ruexd urexd eurxd uerxd rexud erxud rxeud xreud exrud xerud ruxed urxed rxued xrued uxred xured euxrd uexrd exurd xeurd uxerd xuerd rduxe druxe rudxe urdxe durxe udrxe rdxue drxue rxdue xrdue dxrue xdrue ruxde urxde rxude xrude uxrde xurde duxre udxre dxure xdure uxdre xudre eduxr deuxr eudxr uedxr duexr udexr edxur dexur exdur xedur dxeur xdeur euxdr uexdr exudr xeudr uxedr xuedr duxer udxer dxuer xduer uxder xuder

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Definitions and meaning of redux

redux

Etymology

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the 1971 publication of the novel Rabbit Redux by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹiːdʌks/, /ɹiˈdʌks/
  • Rhymes: -ʌks

Adjective

redux (not comparable)

  1. (of a topic, attributive, postpositive) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

Translations

Noun

redux (plural reduxes)

  1. A theme or topic redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

See also

  • redo
  • rediscuss
  • redox

References

Further reading

  • redux (literary term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Durex

Latin

Alternative forms

  • reddux

Etymology

From redūcō (“I lead or bring back”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.duks/, [ˈrɛːd̪uks]

Adjective

redux (genitive reducis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (active voice, mostly as an epithet of Iuppiter and of Fortūna, in the poets and in inscriptions) that leads or brings back, that returns
  2. (passive voice, frequent and Classical Latin) that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned

Usage notes

  • In normal usage, the e is short: rĕdux. Pre-Classically, however (specifically in Plautus), the e occurred long: rēdux.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

  • The ablative singular (in all genders) can be reduce or reducī.

Descendants

  • → English: redux
  • Italian: reduce

References

  • “rĕdux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “redux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • redux 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)
  • rĕdux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,328/1–2.
  • “redux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “redux”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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