tetra

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
5
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛ.tɹə/

Definition of tetra

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.
    “Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish, ultimately from Ancient Greek τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos, “square, quadrilateral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing, fin”).

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to tetra to make another valid word.

Find your best play with tetra

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes tetra, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.