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Is rigor a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rigor is a Scrabble US word. The word rigor is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word rigor is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

RIGOR,

4-letter words (3 found)

GIRO,GIRR,GORI,

3-letter words (5 found)

GIO,GOR,GRR,ORG,RIG,

2-letter words (5 found)

GI,GO,IO,OI,OR,

You can make 14 words from rigor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rigor

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Definitions and meaning of rigor

rigor

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹɪɡɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: rigger, rigour

Noun

rigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)

  1. US spelling of rigour
  2. (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
  3. (physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis.

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [riˈɣor]

Noun

rigor m or f (plural rigors)

  1. rigour/rigor
  2. precision, exactness
  3. harshness (of a climate)

Related terms

  • rigorós

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

rigor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of rigore

Latin

Etymology

From rigeō (“I am rigid”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈrɪɡɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈriːɡor]

Noun

rigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension

  1. stiffness, rigidity
  2. rigor, cold, harshness, severity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • rigōrātus

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “rigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rigor 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)
  • rigor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “rigor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Old French

Noun

rigor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rigors, nominative singular rigor, nominative plural rigors)

  1. harshness; severity
  2. stiffness; rigidity

Descendants

  • English: rigor, rigour
  • French: rigueur

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: ri‧gor

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

  1. rigour (higher level of difficulty)
  2. rigour (severity or strictness)
  3. rigidity; inflexibility

Related terms

  • rígido
  • rigoroso

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rîɡor/
  • Hyphenation: ri‧gor

Noun

rȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)

  1. rigour

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riˈɡoɾ/ [riˈɣ̞oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ri‧gor

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

  1. rigour

Related terms

Further reading

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

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