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Is scoria a Scrabble word?

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

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Is scoria a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scoria is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word scoria is a Words With Friends word. The word scoria is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

SCORIA,

5-letter words (9 found)

ACROS,ARCOS,COIRS,CORIA,CRIAS,CRIOS,ORCAS,OSCAR,SIROC,

4-letter words (28 found)

ACRO,AIRS,ARCO,ARCS,ARIS,ASCI,CARS,CIAO,COIR,CORS,CRIA,CRIS,OARS,OCAS,ORCA,ORCS,OSAR,RAIS,RIAS,ROCS,SAIC,SAIR,SARI,SCAR,SOAR,SOCA,SORA,SORI,

3-letter words (27 found)

AIR,AIS,ARC,ARS,CAR,CIS,COR,COS,IOS,ISO,OAR,OCA,OIS,ORA,ORC,ORS,RAI,RAS,RIA,ROC,SAC,SAI,SAR,SIC,SIR,SOC,SRI,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AR,AS,IO,IS,OI,OR,OS,SI,SO,

You can make 75 words from scoria according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scoria

scoria

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskɔː.ɹɪ.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈskɔɹ.i.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹiə

Noun

scoria (countable and uncountable, plural scorias or scoriae)

  1. The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. [from 14th c.]
  2. (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Aricos, Corias, cariso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɔ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Hyphenation: scò‧ria

Noun

scoria f (plural scorie)

  1. slag
  2. waste
  3. scoria, tailings

Derived terms

  • scorie radioattive

References

Anagrams

  • Isarco, Roscia, corsia, rosica, scorai

Latin

Alternative forms

  • scauria
  • scorria (medieval spelling variant)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría, “slag”), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskoː.ri.a/, [ˈs̠koːriä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ri.a/, [ˈskɔːriä]

Noun

scōria f (genitive scōriae); first declension

  1. slag, dross, scoria
    • 2nd century CE, Lex Metalli Vipascensis, in CLI II, 5181, II, 53–55

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “scoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scoria 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)

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