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Yes. The word regulus is a Scrabble US word. The word regulus is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

REGULUS,

6-letter words (3 found)

GLUERS,GRUELS,LUGERS,

5-letter words (16 found)

GLUER,GLUES,GRUEL,GRUES,GULES,GURLS,GURUS,GUSLE,LUGER,LUGES,LURES,LUSER,RULES,SURGE,URGES,USURE,

4-letter words (34 found)

ERGS,GELS,GERS,GLUE,GRUE,GUES,GULE,GULS,GURL,GURS,GURU,LEGS,LUES,LUGE,LUGS,LURE,LURS,REGS,RUES,RUGS,RULE,RUSE,SLUE,SLUG,SLUR,SUER,SULU,SURE,ULES,ULUS,URES,URGE,URUS,USER,

3-letter words (29 found)

ELS,ERG,ERS,GEL,GER,GUE,GUL,GUR,GUS,LEG,LES,LEU,LUG,LUR,REG,RES,RUE,RUG,SEG,SEL,SER,SUE,SUG,SUR,UGS,ULE,ULU,URE,USE,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,ER,ES,GU,RE,UG,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 92 words from regulus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of regulus

regulus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regulus.

Noun

regulus (plural reguli or reguluses)

  1. An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.

Anagrams

  • Gurules

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rēgelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵelós. Equivalent to rēx (“king”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreː.ɡu.lus/, [ˈreːɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.ɡu.lus/, [ˈrɛːɡulus]

Noun

rēgulus m (genitive rēgulī); second declension (Diminutive of rēx)

  1. A petty king, kinglet
  2. kinglet (bird), wren
  3. a basilisk

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

  • rēgālis
  • rēgīna
  • rēgīnula
  • rēgnum
  • rēx

Descendants

  • Translingual: Regulus
  • → Italian: regolo
  • → Spanish: régulo

References

  • “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • regulus 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)
  • regulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “regulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • regulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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