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Yes. The word sargasso is a Scrabble US word. The word sargasso is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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8-letter words (1 found)

SARGASSO,

6-letter words (2 found)

AGORAS,SARGOS,

5-letter words (14 found)

AGARS,AGORA,AGROS,GORAS,GRASS,GROSS,RAGAS,SAAGS,SAGAS,SAGOS,SARGO,SAROS,SOARS,SORAS,

4-letter words (25 found)

AGAR,AGAS,AGRO,ASAR,GARS,GOAS,GORA,GORS,GOSS,OARS,ORGS,OSAR,OSSA,RAGA,RAGS,SAAG,SAGA,SAGO,SAGS,SARS,SASS,SOAR,SOGS,SORA,SOSS,

3-letter words (21 found)

AAS,AGA,AGO,AGS,ARS,ASS,GAR,GAS,GOA,GOR,GOS,OAR,ORA,ORG,ORS,RAG,RAS,SAG,SAR,SOG,SOS,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AG,AR,AS,GO,OR,OS,SO,

You can make 71 words from sargasso according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sargasso

sargasso

Etymology

From Portuguese sargaço (“(originally) the Lisbon false sun-rose or woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum); (now) gulfweed, sargasso”), ultimately from Latin salicastrum (“kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets”), from salix (“plant of the genus Salix; willow”) + -astrum (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance). Salix is derived from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). The English word is cognate with French sargasse, Spanish sargazo.

The capitalized form of sense 2 (“a confused, tangled mass or situation”), Sargasso, is probably a reference to the Sargasso Sea.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɑːˈɡæsəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sɑɹˈɡæsoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æsəʊ
  • Hyphenation: sar‧gas‧so

Noun

sargasso (countable and uncountable, plural sargassos or sargassoes)

  1. A brown alga, of the genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses.
    Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso weed, sargassum
  2. (figuratively) Also Sargasso: a confused, tangled mass or situation.
  3. (biology, oceanography) A part of an ocean or sea characterized by floating masses of sargassos, like the Sargasso Sea.

Derived terms

  • Sargasso, Sargasso Sea

Related terms

  • Sargassum

Translations

References

Further reading

  • Sargassum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “sargasso, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sargasse, from Portuguese sargaço, ultimately from Latin salicastrum, from salix (“willow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sarˈɡas.so/
  • Rhymes: -asso
  • Hyphenation: sar‧gàs‧so

Noun

sargasso m (plural sargassi)

  1. sargasso, gulfweed

Further reading

  • sargasso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Source: wiktionary.org