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7-letter words (8 found)

EASTERS,RESEATS,SAETERS,SEAREST,SEATERS,STEARES,TEASERS,TESSERA,

6-letter words (26 found)

ARETES,ASSERT,ASTERS,EASERS,EASTER,EATERS,ERASES,ESTERS,REASTS,REATES,REESTS,RESEAT,RESETS,SAETER,SAREES,SEATER,SEREST,STARES,STEARE,STEARS,STEERS,STERES,STRAES,TASERS,TEASER,TEASES,

5-letter words (53 found)

ARETE,ARETS,ARSES,ASSET,ASTER,EARST,EASER,EASES,EASTS,EATER,ERASE,ERSES,ESTER,RASES,RASSE,RATES,REAST,REATE,REEST,RESAT,RESES,RESET,RESTS,SAREE,SASER,SATES,SEARE,SEARS,SEASE,SEATS,SEERS,SERES,SETAE,STARE,STARS,STEAR,STEER,STERE,STRAE,TARES,TASER,TASES,TASSE,TEARS,TEASE,TEERS,TERAS,TERES,TERSE,TRASS,TREES,TRESS,TSARS,

4-letter words (50 found)

ARES,ARET,ARSE,ARTS,ATES,EARS,EASE,EAST,EATS,ERAS,ERES,ERST,ESES,ESSE,ESTS,ETAS,RASE,RAST,RATE,RATS,REES,REST,RETE,RETS,SARS,SATE,SEAR,SEAS,SEAT,SEER,SEES,SERA,SERE,SERS,SESE,SETA,SETS,STAR,TAES,TARE,TARS,TASE,TASS,TEAR,TEAS,TEER,TEES,TREE,TRES,TSAR,

3-letter words (33 found)

ARE,ARS,ART,ASS,ATE,ATS,EAR,EAS,EAT,ERA,ERE,ERS,ESS,EST,ETA,RAS,RAT,REE,RES,RET,SAE,SAR,SAT,SEA,SEE,SER,SET,TAE,TAR,TAS,TEA,TEE,TES,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AR,AS,AT,EA,EE,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 184 words from tessera according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tessera

tessera

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

Noun

tessera (plural tesserae)

  1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
  2. (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

Derived terms

  • tessellate
  • tesseract

Further reading

  • tessera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • tessera (Venus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Easters, Teressa, arsetes, earsets, erasest, erastes, reseats, saeters, searest, seaters, starees, teasers, teresas

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛs.se.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛssera
  • Hyphenation: tès‧se‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

Cognate with Piedmontese téssera.

Noun

tessera f (plural tessere)

  1. card; credit card
  2. pass
  3. tessera (small square piece used for making a mosaic)
  4. domino
Synonyms
  • tassello
Derived terms
  • fototessera
  • tesserare
  • tesserino

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tessera

  1. inflection of tesserare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • asterse, sareste, traesse

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛsːerä]

Noun

tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension

  1. tessera
  2. die (used in games)
  3. watchword
  4. token
  5. ticket

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  • “tessera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tessera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tessera 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)
  • tessera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “tessera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “tessera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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