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Yes. The word scapus is a Scrabble US word. The word scapus is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word scapus is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

S1C3A1P3U1S1

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6-letter words (2 found)

SCAPUS,SCAUPS,

5-letter words (6 found)

ASCUS,CASUS,CAUPS,CUSPS,SCAUP,SCUPS,

4-letter words (15 found)

ASPS,CAPS,CAUP,CUPS,CUSP,CUSS,PACS,PASS,PUSS,SACS,SAPS,SCUP,SPAS,SUPS,UPAS,

3-letter words (14 found)

ASP,ASS,CAP,CUP,PAC,PAS,PUS,SAC,SAP,SAU,SPA,SUP,SUS,UPS,

2-letter words (4 found)

AS,PA,UP,US,

You can make 41 words from scapus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scapus

scapus

Etymology

Latin scapus (“shaft”)

Noun

scapus (plural scapi)

  1. (botany, zoology) A scape.
  2. (architecture) The shaft of a column.

Anagrams

  • scaups

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skāpos, from *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”). Cognate with Latin Scipiō, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop; to hurl, shoot”), Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, pole”), and Proto-Slavic *kopьje (“spear, javelin”).

Noun

scāpus m (genitive scāpī); second declension

  1. stem, stalk (of a plant)
  2. shaft (or similar upright column)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • scōpa

Descendants

  • English: scape
  • Portuguese: escapo

References

  • “scapus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scapus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scapus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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