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Yes. The word scala is a Scrabble US word. The word scala is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word scala is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

SCALA,

4-letter words (6 found)

AALS,ALAS,CAAS,CALS,CASA,LACS,

3-letter words (10 found)

AAL,AAS,ALA,ALS,CAA,CAL,LAC,LAS,SAC,SAL,

2-letter words (4 found)

AA,AL,AS,LA,

You can make 21 words from scala according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of scala

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Definitions and meaning of scala

scala

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.

Noun

scala (plural scalas or scalae)

  1. Ladder; sequence.
  2. (anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
  3. A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Anagrams

  • AACSL, Calas, Casal, calas, casal

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈska.la/

Noun

scala (plural scalas)

  1. staircase

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈska.la/
  • Rhymes: -ala
  • Hyphenation: scà‧la

Etymology 1

From Latin scāla (“stair, staircase, ladder”).

Noun

scala f (plural scale)

  1. ladder
  2. stair
  3. scale
Derived terms
  • scala mobile (“escalator”)
Descendants
  • → German: Skala
    • → Polish: skala
  • → French: escale
  • → Turkish: iskele

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

scala

  1. inflection of scalare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Noun

scala f (plural scale)

  1. (card games, poker) straight

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • lasca

Latin

Etymology

From *skand-slā, from scandō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskaː.la/, [ˈs̠käːɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.la/, [ˈskäːlä]

Noun

scāla f (genitive scālae); first declension

  1. ladder
  2. (plural only) stairs (flight of steps)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “scala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scala 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)
  • scala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • scala in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “scala”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skalō (“shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, part, divide”).

Noun

scala f

  1. shell
  2. scale (dish of balance)
  3. bowl

Descendants

  • Middle High German: schāle
    • Bavarian: Schoin
    • German: Schale
      • → Serbo-Croatian: šolja
    • Yiddish: שאָל (shol)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈst͡sa.la/
  • Rhymes: -ala
  • Syllabification: sca‧la

Verb

scala

  1. third-person singular present of scalać

Source: wiktionary.org