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Yes. The word thrips is a Scrabble US word. The word thrips is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word thrips is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

THRIPS,

5-letter words (8 found)

PITHS,SHIRT,SPIRT,SPRIT,STIRP,STRIP,THRIP,TRIPS,

4-letter words (24 found)

HIPS,HIPT,HIST,HITS,PHIS,PIRS,PISH,PITH,PITS,RIPS,RIPT,RISP,RITS,SHIP,SHIR,SHIT,SHRI,SITH,SPIT,STIR,THIR,THIS,TIPS,TRIP,

3-letter words (20 found)

HIP,HIS,HIT,ISH,ITS,PHI,PHT,PIR,PIS,PIT,PSI,PST,RIP,RIT,SIP,SIR,SIT,SRI,TIP,TIS,

2-letter words (8 found)

HI,IS,IT,PI,SH,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 61 words from thrips according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of thrips

thrips

Alternative forms

  • thrip (alternative singular form)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρίψ (thríps, “wood-worm”).

Noun

thrips (plural thrips or thripses)

  1. Any of the many small insects of the order Thysanoptera, especially those that attack useful plants.
    • 2002, Thrips, article in International Wildlife Encyclopedia Volume 19, Picture caption, page 2676,
      The thousands of thrips species include among their number the smallest of all winged insects.

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Further reading

  • thrips on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20050219030824/http://www.gladescropcare.com/wythp.html

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρῑ́ψ (thrī́ps, “woodworm”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /tʰriːps/, [t̪ʰriːps̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /trips/, [t̪rips]

Noun

thrīps m (genitive thrīpis); third declension

  1. A kind of woodworm
  2. trifles, worthless things

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

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

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