dennis

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈdɛnɪs/ (UK)

Definition of dennis

12 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
    “I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!”
    “Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"”
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name

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
    “I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!”
    “Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"”
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
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  12. A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.

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