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Is sorites a Scrabble word?

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

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

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7-letter words (8 found)

ROESTIS,ROSIEST,SIROSET,SORITES,SORTIES,STORIES,TOSSIER,TRIOSES,

6-letter words (27 found)

ESTROS,OSIERS,REISTS,RESIST,RESITS,RESTOS,ROESTI,ROISTS,ROSETS,ROSIES,ROSITS,ROSTIS,SEISOR,SISTER,SOREST,SORTES,SORTIE,STIRES,STORES,TIROES,TOISES,TORIES,TORSES,TOSSER,TRIOSE,TSORES,TSORIS,

5-letter words (38 found)

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4-letter words (52 found)

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3-letter words (34 found)

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2-letter words (17 found)

ER,ES,ET,IO,IS,IT,OE,OI,OR,OS,RE,SI,SO,ST,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 177 words from sorites according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sorites

sorites

Etymology

From the Latin sōrītēs, from the Ancient Greek σωρείτης (sōreítēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈɹaɪtiːz/

Noun

sorites (plural sorites)

  1. (logic, rhetoric) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.

Derived terms

  • destructive sorites
  • Goclenian sorites
  • sorites paradox

See also

  • syllogism

Anagrams

  • Sorties, restios, rosiest, rossite, sorties, stories, trioses

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σωρείτης (sōreítēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /soːˈriː.teːs/, [s̠oːˈriːt̪eːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈri.tes/, [soˈriːt̪es]

Noun

sōrītēs m (genitive sōrītae); first declension

  1. sorites; a logical sophism formed by an accumulation of arguments

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Descendants

  • English: sorites

References

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

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