Definitions for caput

caput ca·put

Spelling: [key-puh t, kap-uh t]
IPA: /ˈkeɪ pət, ˈkæp ət/

Caput is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in caput (acptu).

Definitions for caput

noun

  1. any head or headlike expansion on a structure, as on a bone.

Origin of caput

1640-50; Latin: head

Examples for caput

The scite of the caput of this barony is in the environs of Pont l'Evesque.

The Nevada Democrat was over; his career dead; his reign atop the Senate caput.

Then we are told how lands geld at or in some manor or at the caput manerii.

Qui estis in convivio, caput apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino.

Torticollis, myalgia cervicalis, stiff neck or wry neck, caput obstipum.

caput ejus recisum ad regem reportatum, ludibrio fuit, neque indigno.

Angusticeps is from two Latin words: angustus, narrow; caput, head.

caput Magnus suddenly experienced the throes of dissolution.

An imitation of the caput rasum appears to be still the professional costume of the clown.

caput Magnus was going to try Higgleby, that was all there was to it!

Word Value for caput
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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