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Is vortex a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vortex is a Scrabble US word. The word vortex is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is vortex a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vortex is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

VORTEX,

5-letter words (5 found)

OVERT,OXTER,RETOX,TROVE,VOTER,

4-letter words (10 found)

OVER,OXER,ROTE,ROVE,TORE,VERT,VETO,VEXT,VOTE,VROT,

3-letter words (18 found)

EVO,EXO,ORE,ORT,REO,RET,REV,REX,ROE,ROT,TEX,TOE,TOR,VET,VEX,VOE,VOR,VOX,

2-letter words (9 found)

ER,ET,EX,OE,OR,OX,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 44 words from vortex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vortex

vortex

Etymology

From Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɔɹtɛks/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɹtɛks

Noun

vortex (plural vortices or vortexes)

  1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  4. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
  5. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • vortical
  • vorticity

Translations

See also

  • eddy
  • ley line
  • maelstrom

Verb

vortex (third-person singular simple present vortexes, present participle vortexing, simple past and past participle vortexed)

  1. (chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer

References

  • “vortex”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “vortex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vortex.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔʁ.tɛks/

Noun

vortex m (uncountable)

  1. vortex

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯or.teks/, [ˈu̯ɔrt̪ɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvor.teks/, [ˈvɔrt̪eks]

Noun

vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension

  1. Archaic form of vertex.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vortex or Latin vortex.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvor.teks/

Noun

vortex n (plural vortexuri)

  1. vortex

Declension

Further reading

  • vortex in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Source: wiktionary.org