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Is teredo a Scrabble word?

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

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Is teredo a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

TEREDO,

5-letter words (7 found)

DETER,DOREE,DOTER,ERODE,ROTED,TREED,TRODE,

4-letter words (23 found)

DEER,DEET,DERE,DERO,DOER,DORE,DORT,DOTE,DREE,ERED,REDE,REDO,REED,RETE,RODE,ROED,ROTE,TEED,TEER,TOED,TORE,TREE,TROD,

3-letter words (21 found)

DEE,DOE,DOR,DOT,ERE,ODE,ORD,ORE,ORT,RED,REE,REO,RET,ROD,ROE,ROT,TED,TEE,TOD,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (12 found)

DE,DO,ED,EE,ER,ET,OD,OE,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 65 words from teredo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of teredo

teredo

Etymology

From Latin terēdō (“woodworm”), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “wood-worm”). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

teredo (plural teredos or teredoes)

  1. (zoology) A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially the shipworm, Teredo navalis.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “woodworm”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /teˈreː.doː/, [t̪ɛˈreːd̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /teˈre.do/, [t̪eˈrɛːd̪o]

Noun

terēdō f (genitive terēdinis); third declension

  1. woodworm, boring-worm, wood-fretter
  2. moth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Translingual: Teredo

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org