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— English word —

• scytale n. (Historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used…

— International convention —

• Scytale prop.n. Agkistrodon, a genus of venomous pit vipers.

— In French —

• scytale n.f. Encodage dont se servaient les Lacédémoniens pour écrire…

16 English words from 2 English definitions

around cylinder genus Historical message parchment pit pit␣vipers strip used venomous vipers which with wound written

3 English words from the foreign definition

dont les pour

4 foreign words from the foreign definition

écrire Encodage Lacédémoniens servaient

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

scytales

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ale Ale cyt- Tal tale YTA

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ela ELA E-la lat LAT lat. Lat.

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

acetyls Catleys

18 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acolytes acylates Atchleys Cantleys castlery catalyse chastely clayiest dactyles glycates hyclates lyticase scarlety scathely scytales secantly staylace stay-lace

25 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

acetyl astely Astley aylets Castel castle Castle Catley CELTAs cetyls clayes cleats clytes cytase eastly eclats éclats layest lyates lysate scaley sclate slatey Stacey Staley

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

scotale skytale

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