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

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

UNGUIS,

5-letter words (2 found)

SUING,USING,

4-letter words (12 found)

GINS,GNUS,GUNS,INGS,NUGS,SIGN,SING,SNIG,SNUG,SUNG,SUNI,UNIS,

3-letter words (18 found)

GIN,GIS,GNU,GUN,GUS,ING,INS,NIS,NUG,NUS,SIG,SIN,SUG,SUI,SUN,UGS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (9 found)

GI,GU,IN,IS,NU,SI,UG,UN,US,

You can make 42 words from unguis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of unguis

unguis

Etymology

Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”). Doublet of onyx.

Noun

unguis (plural ungues or unguises)

  1. (zoology) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
  2. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
  3. (botany) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.
  4. (historical) An old measure equal to the length of the nail of the little finger.

Derived terms

  • subunguis

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”), so-called because of its transparency and its shape, reminiscent of a fingernail.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ̃.ɡɥis/

Noun

unguis m (plural unguis)

  1. (anatomy) The smallest of the facial bones, located at the inner wall of the orbit.

References

  • “unguis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ungus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ- (“nail”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Old Irish inga, Sanskrit नख (nakhá, “claw, nail”), Old Armenian եղունգն (ełungn), Old Church Slavonic ногъть (nogŭtĭ), Lithuanian nagas, Persian ناخن (nâxon), Albanian nyell, and Old English næġl (English nail).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈun.ɡʷis/, [ˈʊŋɡʷɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈun.ɡwis/, [ˈuŋɡwis]

Noun

unguis m (genitive unguis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) fingernail, toenail
  2. talon, claw
  3. hoof

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Derived terms

  • ad unguem
  • in unguem
  • unguicula
  • ungula

Descendants

  • >? Sicilian: ugnu
  • → English: unguis
  • → French: unguis

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org