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

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

T1H4O1L1U1S1

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6-letter words (1 found)

THOLUS,

5-letter words (9 found)

HOLTS,HOUTS,LOTUS,LOUTS,SHOUT,SLOTH,SOUTH,THOUS,TOLUS,

4-letter words (30 found)

HOLS,HOLT,HOST,HOTS,HOUT,HUSO,HUTS,LOSH,LOST,LOTH,LOTS,LOUS,LOUT,LUSH,LUST,OUST,OUTS,SHOT,SHUL,SHUT,SLOT,SLUT,SOTH,SOUL,SOUT,THOU,THUS,TOLU,TOSH,TUSH,

3-letter words (16 found)

HOS,HOT,HUT,LOS,LOT,LOU,OHS,OUS,OUT,SHO,SOH,SOL,SOT,SOU,THO,UTS,

2-letter words (12 found)

HO,LO,OH,OS,OU,SH,SO,ST,TO,UH,US,UT,

You can make 68 words from tholus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tholus

tholus

Etymology

From Latin tholus (“dome, rotunda”). Doublet of tholos.

Noun

tholus (plural tholi)

  1. (astronomy, geology) A small domical mountain or hill.
    Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano.
  2. A round building, dome, or cupola.
    Synonym: thole
  3. (lichenology) Part of the apical structure of the asci of some lichen species.

Anagrams

  • hoults

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰo.lus/, [ˈt̪ʰɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.lus/, [ˈt̪ɔːlus]

Noun

tholus m (genitive tholī); second declension

  1. dome, cupola, rotunda

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

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

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