dengue

dengue is a 6-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
2. noun. an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dengue:

unedge

Common word forms

dengues

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