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Is tellus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tellus is a Scrabble US word. The word tellus is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

T1E1L1L1U1S1

Is tellus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tellus is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1E1L1L1U1S1

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6-letter words (2 found)

TELLUS,TULLES,

5-letter words (6 found)

LUTES,STELL,STULL,TELLS,TULES,TULLE,

4-letter words (16 found)

ELLS,ELTS,LEST,LETS,LUES,LUST,LUTE,SELL,SLUE,SLUT,SUET,TELL,TELS,TULE,ULES,UTES,

3-letter words (16 found)

ELL,ELS,ELT,EST,LES,LET,LEU,SEL,SET,SUE,TEL,TES,ULE,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ES,ET,ST,TE,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 48 words from tellus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tellus

tellus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *telnos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *telnos ~ *telnes-, from *telh₂- (“flat ground”), but reshaped after rūs. Otherwise, could derive from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌋𐌀𐌓 (tular, “earth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtel.luːs/, [ˈt̪ɛlːʲuːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtel.lus/, [ˈt̪ɛlːus]

Noun

tellūs f (genitive tellūris); third declension

  1. earth, ground, soil
    Synonyms: terra, solum, humus
  2. Earth, globe, world
  3. country, district, region, land

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

  • “tellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tellus 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)
  • tellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tellus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “tellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “tellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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