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Is squilla a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word squilla is a Scrabble US word. The word squilla is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is squilla a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word squilla is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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Is squilla a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word squilla is a Words With Friends word. The word squilla is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

SQUILLA,

6-letter words (5 found)

QUAILS,QUILLS,SQUAIL,SQUALL,SQUILL,

5-letter words (5 found)

ALLIS,QUAIL,QUAIS,QUASI,QUILL,

4-letter words (11 found)

AILS,ALLS,ALUS,ILLS,LIAS,QUAI,SAIL,SALL,SAUL,SIAL,SILL,

3-letter words (15 found)

AIL,AIS,ALL,ALS,ALU,ILL,LAS,LIS,QIS,QUA,SAI,SAL,SAU,SUI,SUQ,

2-letter words (9 found)

AI,AL,AS,IS,LA,LI,QI,SI,US,

You can make 46 words from squilla according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of squilla

squilla

Etymology

From Latin squilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

squilla (plural squillas or squillae)

  1. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
  2. (botany, obsolete) A squill, a sea onion.
  3. (zoology) A mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
  4. (zoology, obsolete) An insect resembling a mantis shrimp.

References

  • Squilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Squilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
  • Henry Beauchamp Walters, Church Bells of England, page 3
  • Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, page 453
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "squilla, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1915

Italian

Verb

squilla

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

Latin

Alternative forms

  • scilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla, “squill, Urginea maritima”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʷil.la/, [ˈs̠kʷɪlːʲä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskwil.la/, [ˈskwilːä]

Noun

squilla f (genitive squillae); first declension

  1. (botany) The squill or sea onion.
  2. A shrill little dinner bell used by medieval monks.
  3. A kind of shrimp

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → French: squille
  • Galician: esquía, esquila
  • Translingual: Squilla

References

  • “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • squilla 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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