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Is tegmen a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tegmen is a Scrabble US word. The word tegmen is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is tegmen a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tegmen is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

T1E1G2M3E1N1

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Yes. The word tegmen is a Words With Friends word. The word tegmen is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

TEGMEN,

5-letter words (3 found)

GENET,MENGE,TENGE,

4-letter words (14 found)

ETEN,GENE,GENT,MEET,MENE,MENG,MENT,METE,NEEM,NETE,TEEM,TEEN,TEME,TENE,

3-letter words (18 found)

EEN,EME,ENE,ENG,GEE,GEM,GEN,GET,MEE,MEG,MEN,MET,NEE,NEG,NET,TEE,TEG,TEN,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EM,EN,ET,ME,NE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 44 words from tegmen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tegmen

tegmen

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin tegmen, syncopated form of tegimen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛɡ.mən/

Noun

tegmen (plural tegmina)

  1. (biology) A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.
  2. (botany) An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.
  3. (anatomy) A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.
  4. (entomology) In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the tegmina are the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. Note that the more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.

Latin

Etymology

From tegō (“I cover”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈteɡ.men/, [ˈt̪ɛɡmɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈteɡ.men/, [ˈt̪ɛɡmen]

Noun

tegmen n (genitive tegminis); third declension

  1. Alternative form of tegimen

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

References

  • “tegmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tegmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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