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Is thus a Scrabble word?

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

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4-letter words (4 found)

HUTS,SHUT,THUS,TUSH,

3-letter words (2 found)

HUT,UTS,

2-letter words (5 found)

SH,ST,UH,US,UT,

You can make 11 words from thus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of thus

thus

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thŭs, IPA(key): /ˈðʌs/
  • Rhymes: -ʌs

Etymology 1

From Middle English thus, þus, from Old English þus (“thus, in this way, as follows, in this manner, to this extent”), from Proto-West Germanic *þus (“so, thus”), perhaps originally from a variant of the instrumental form of this, related to Old English þȳs (“by this, with this”), Old Saxon thius (“by this, with this”). Cognate with Scots thus (“thus”), North Frisian thus, West Frisian dus (“thus”), Dutch dus (“thus, so”), Low German sus (“thus, hence”).

Adverb

thus (not comparable) (now literary or formal)

  1. (manner) In this way or manner.
  2. (conjunctive) As a result.
Synonyms
  • (in this way): as such, like so, like this, so, thusly; See also Thesaurus:thus
  • (as a result): as such, before, consequently, hence, so, therefore; See also Thesaurus:therefore
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Noun

thus (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of thuris.

Anagrams

  • Hust, STHU, Tush, huts, shut, tush

Latin

Alternative forms

  • tūs

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύος (thúos, “burnt offering, holocaust”), from θύω (thúō).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʰuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪us]

Noun

thūs n (genitive thūris); third declension

  1. incense, frankincense

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Synonyms

  • libanus (Late Latin)

Descendants

  • → Middle Irish: túis
    • Irish: túis
  • ⇒ Portuguese: turiferar

See also

  • thȳmiāma
  • thuribulum

References

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

Middle English

Adverb

thus

  1. alternative form of þus

Source: wiktionary.org