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

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

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6-letter words (4 found)

REISES,SEISER,SERIES,SIREES,

5-letter words (9 found)

ERSES,RESES,RISES,SEERS,SEIRS,SEISE,SERES,SIREE,SIRES,

4-letter words (18 found)

ERES,ESES,ESSE,IRES,REES,REIS,RISE,SEER,SEES,SEIR,SEIS,SERE,SERS,SESE,SIES,SIRE,SIRS,SRIS,

3-letter words (13 found)

ERE,ERS,ESS,IRE,REE,REI,RES,SEE,SEI,SER,SIR,SIS,SRI,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,ER,ES,IS,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 51 words from series according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of series

series

Etymology

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (to join together, bind), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (to bind, put together, to line up). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹiz/, /ˈsiɹiz/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsɪəɹɪ.ɪz/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)iːz
  • Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)

  1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
    Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
  2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
    Synonyms: show; program; season (North American English, Australian English)
  3. (Discuss(+) this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums i = 1 n a i {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}} of a given sequence ai.
  4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
  5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
  6. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
  7. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
  8. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

  • (broadcasting): In North American English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a season, whereas the word series is a synonym of program or show.
  • (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

  • serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)
  • Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)
  • Burmese: စီးရီး (ci:ri:)

Translations

References

Further reading

  • “series”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “series”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “series”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • reises, ressie, seiser

Asturian

Noun

series

  1. plural of serie

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɾi.əs]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [seˈɾi.es]

Verb

series

  1. second-person singular conditional of ser
  2. second-person singular conditional of ésser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

  1. plural of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

  1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From serō (to bind) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.eːs/, [ˈs̠ɛrieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.es/, [ˈsɛːries]

Noun

seriēs f (genitive seriēī); fifth declension

  1. a row
  2. a succession
  3. a series
  4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • series”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • series”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • series 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)
  • series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

series

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɾjes/ [ˈse.ɾjes]
  • Rhymes: -eɾjes
  • Syllabification: se‧ries

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

series f pl

  1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

series

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar

Swedish

Noun

series

  1. indefinite genitive singular of serie

series c

  1. Obsolete form of serie.

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