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

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

STRIDOR,

6-letter words (3 found)

DROITS,TORRID,TRIORS,

5-letter words (24 found)

DIRTS,DOITS,DORIS,DORRS,DORTS,DROIT,ODIST,ORRIS,RIOTS,ROIDS,ROIST,RORID,RORTS,ROSIT,ROSTI,ROTIS,TIROS,TIRRS,TORRS,TORSI,TRIOR,TRIOS,TRODS,TROIS,

4-letter words (32 found)

DIRT,DITS,DOIT,DORR,DORS,DORT,DOST,DOTS,ORDS,ORTS,RIDS,RIOT,RITS,RODS,ROID,RORT,ROST,ROTI,ROTS,SORD,SORI,SORT,STIR,TIDS,TIRO,TIRR,TODS,TORI,TORR,TORS,TRIO,TROD,

3-letter words (28 found)

DIS,DIT,DOR,DOS,DOT,DSO,IDS,IOS,ISO,ITS,ODS,OIS,ORD,ORS,ORT,RID,RIT,ROD,ROT,SIR,SIT,SOD,SOT,SRI,TID,TIS,TOD,TOR,

2-letter words (15 found)

DI,DO,ID,IO,IS,IT,OD,OI,OR,OS,SI,SO,ST,TI,TO,

You can make 103 words from stridor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stridor

stridor

Etymology

From Latin strīdor (“shrill or harsh sound”), from strīdō (“make a shrill or harsh sound”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹaɪdɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

stridor (countable and uncountable, plural stridors)

  1. A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
  2. (medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.

Derived terms

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “stridor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

French

Noun

stridor m (plural stridors)

  1. (medicine) stridor

Further reading

  • “stridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From strīdō (“I make a shrill sound, shriek”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstriː.dor/, [ˈs̠t̪riːd̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstri.dor/, [ˈst̪riːd̪or]

Noun

strīdor m (genitive strīdōris); third declension

  1. A harsh, shrill, hissing, grating, or creaking sound

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Catalan: estridor
  • → English: stridor
  • Italian: stridore
  • Portuguese: estridor
  • Romanian: stridor
  • Spanish: estridor

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stridor or French stridor.

Noun

stridor n (uncountable)

  1. stridor

Declension


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