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

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6-letter words (3 found)

CITRUS,RICTUS,RUSTIC,

5-letter words (7 found)

CRITS,CRUST,CUITS,CURSI,CURST,CUTIS,ICTUS,

4-letter words (21 found)

CIST,CITS,CRIS,CRIT,CRUS,CUIT,CURS,CURT,CUTS,RITS,RUCS,RUST,RUTS,SCUR,SCUT,STIR,SUIT,TICS,TUIS,URIC,UTIS,

3-letter words (19 found)

CIS,CIT,CRU,CUR,CUT,ITS,RIT,RUC,RUT,SIC,SIR,SIT,SRI,SUI,SUR,TIC,TIS,TUI,UTS,

2-letter words (8 found)

IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,UR,US,UT,

You can make 58 words from rictus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rictus

rictus

Etymology

From Latin rictus, participle of ringor (“open the mouth wide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɪk.təs/, /ˈɹɪk.tʊs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪktəs

Noun

rictus (plural rictus or rictuses)

  1. A bird's gaping mouth.
  2. The throat of a calyx.
  3. Any open-mouthed expression.

Derived terms

  • rictal

Translations

Anagrams

  • Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rustic

Catalan

Noun

rictus m (invariable)

  1. rictus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rictus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁik.tys/

Noun

rictus m (plural rictus)

  1. rictus; grimace

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From ringor (“I gape, show my teeth, snarl; I am vexed”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrɪkt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrik.tus/, [ˈrikt̪us]

Noun

rictus m (genitive rictūs); fourth declension

  1. the gaping of a mouth, as when laughing or yawning

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → English: rictus
  • → French: rictus
  • → Portuguese: ricto
  • → Spanish: rictus

References

  • “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rictus 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)

Anagrams

  • citrus

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rictus, from Latin rictus.

Noun

rictus n (plural rictusuri)

  1. rictus

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rictus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈriɡtus/ [ˈriɣ̞.t̪us]
  • Rhymes: -iɡtus
  • Syllabification: ric‧tus

Noun

rictus m (plural rictus)

  1. sneer; wince

Further reading

  • “rictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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