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Is tabes a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tabes a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1A1B3E1S1

Is tabes a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tabes is a Words With Friends word. The word tabes is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (8 found)

ABETS,BASTE,BATES,BEAST,BEATS,BESAT,BETAS,TABES,

4-letter words (23 found)

ABET,ATES,BAES,BASE,BAST,BATE,BATS,BEAT,BEST,BETA,BETS,EAST,EATS,ETAS,SABE,SATE,SEAT,SETA,STAB,TABS,TAES,TASE,TEAS,

3-letter words (22 found)

ABS,ATE,ATS,BAE,BAS,BAT,BES,BET,EAS,EAT,EST,ETA,SAB,SAE,SAT,SEA,SET,TAB,TAE,TAS,TEA,TES,

2-letter words (12 found)

AB,AE,AS,AT,BA,BE,EA,ES,ET,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 66 words from tabes according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tabes

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Definitions and meaning of tabes

tabes

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tābēs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪbiːz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪbiz
  • Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

Noun

tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes)

  1. (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
    1. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognates include Sanskrit तोय (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”), τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Old English þawian and English thaw. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtaː.beːs/, [ˈt̪äːbeːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈta.bes/, [ˈt̪äːbes]

Noun

tābēs f (genitive tābis); third declension

  1. the act of wasting away (due to a disease or by other means: especially of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord subserving positional sense in the legs in untreated syphilis)
  2. decay, putrefaction
  3. foulness, stench
  4. (figurative) moral corruption
  5. fluid from a wound
  6. a fluid that results from melting or dissolving

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

  • tābeō
  • tābificus
  • tābēscō
  • tābidus
  • tābificus
  • tābitūdō

Descendants

  • Portuguese: tabe, tabes

References

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

Volapük

Noun

tabes

  1. dative plural of tab

Source: wiktionary.org