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Is versus a Scrabble word?

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

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Is versus a Scrabble UK word?

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

V4E1R1S1U1S1

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Yes. The word versus is a Words With Friends word. The word versus is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

VERSUS,

5-letter words (7 found)

ERUVS,RESUS,RUSES,RUSSE,SUERS,SURES,USERS,

4-letter words (13 found)

ERUV,REVS,RUES,RUSE,SERS,SEVS,SUER,SUES,SURE,URES,USER,USES,VERS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ERS,ESS,RES,REV,RUE,SER,SEV,SUE,SUR,SUS,URE,USE,

2-letter words (5 found)

ER,ES,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 39 words from versus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of versus

versus

Etymology

From Middle English versus, borrowed from Latin versus (“facing”), past participle of vertere (“to turn, change, overthrow, destroy”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜːsəs/, /ˈvɜːsɪz/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɝsəs/, /ˈvɝsəz/, /ˈvɝs/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səs
  • Homophone: verses

Preposition

versus

  1. Against; in opposition to.
    Synonyms: vs, vs., (abbreviations) v
  2. Compared with, as opposed to.
  3. (law) Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
    Synonyms: v, (abbreviation) v.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • versus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Latin versus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋersus/, [ˈʋe̞rs̠us̠]
  • Rhymes: -ersus
  • Syllabification(key): ver‧sus

Preposition

versus (+ nominative)

  1. versus
    Synonym: vastaan

Further reading

  • “versus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛʁ.sys/
  • Rhymes: -ys

Preposition

versus

  1. versus, full form of vs

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin versus. Doublet of verso, which is inherited.

Preposition

versus

  1. versus

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.sus/, [ˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.sus/, [ˈvɛrsus]

Etymology 1

From earlier vorsus, from Proto-Italic *worssos, perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”).

Alternative forms

  • vorsus

Participle

versus (feminine versa, neuter versum); first/second-declension participle

  1. turned, changed, having been turned
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms
  • anniversārius
  • contrōversus
  • prōrsus/ prōsus/ prōsa
  • ūniversus

Etymology 2

Adverbial use of versus (“turned”).

Alternative forms

  • versum
  • vorsum
  • vorsus

Adverb

versus (not comparable)

  1. towards, turned to or in the direction of, facing
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 3

Action noun from vertō + -tus.

Alternative forms

  • vorsus

Noun

versus m (genitive versūs); fourth declension

  1. a furrow (turned earth)
  2. (transf.) a line, row
    2. (partic.) a line of writing, a verse
  3. a land measure (= πλέθρον (pléthron))
  4. (dance) a turn, step
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • versiculus
  • versificō
Descendants

Etymology 4

Perfect passive participle of verrō (“to sweep”).

Participle

versus (feminine versa, neuter versum); first/second-declension participle

  1. swept
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • “versus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “versus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • versus 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)
  • versus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕrsus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 705

Anagrams

  • servus

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin versus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛr.sus/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrsus
  • Syllabification: ver‧sus

Preposition

versus

  1. versus (in opposition to)
    Synonym: kontra

Further reading

  • versus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ver‧sus

Preposition

versus

  1. Alternative spelling of vérsus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English versus, from Latin versus. Doublet of verso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeɾsus/ [ˈbeɾ.sus]
  • Rhymes: -eɾsus
  • Syllabification: ver‧sus

Preposition

versus

  1. versus

Usage notes

  • This word is sometimes frowned upon as an anglicism, with the suggestion that contra or the conjunction y should be used instead.

References

Further reading

  • “versus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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