rabies
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɹeɪ.biːz/
Definition of rabies
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable)An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
Words you can make from rabies
97 playable · top: BRAISE (8 pts)
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17 words4-letter words
35 words- ABRI 6 pts
- ARBS 6 pts
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- AIRS 4 pts
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3-letter words
31 words- ABS 5 pts
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- AIR 3 pts
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- RIA 3 pts
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2-letter words
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