rendaku
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of rendaku
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable)In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is 時々 (ときどき, tokidoki), where the second, iterative element "-toki" becomes "-doki" and 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami) where the word 紙 (かみ, kami; paper) becomes "gami".
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Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).
Words you can make from rendaku
103 playable · top: UNRAKED (12 pts)
Best play unraked 12 points6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
12 words4-letter words
41 words- DANK 9 pts
- DARK 9 pts
- DREK 9 pts
- DUKE 9 pts
- DUNK 9 pts
- KANE 8 pts
- KARN 8 pts
- KERN 8 pts
- KNAR 8 pts
- KNUR 8 pts
- KUNA 8 pts
- KUNE 8 pts
- NARK 8 pts
- NEUK 8 pts
- NUKE 8 pts
- RAKE 8 pts
- RAKU 8 pts
- RANK 8 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DARN 5 pts
- DEAN 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DUNE 5 pts
- DURA 5 pts
- DURE 5 pts
- DURN 5 pts
- NARD 5 pts
- NERD 5 pts
- NUDE 5 pts
- NURD 5 pts
- RAND 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- REND 5 pts
- RUDE 5 pts
- RUED 5 pts
- UNDE 5 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RUNE 4 pts
- UREA 4 pts
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