Definitions for pes

pes pes

Spelling: [pees, peys]
IPA: /pis, peɪs/

Pes is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in pes (eps).

Definitions for pes

noun

  1. a foot or footlike part.
  2. the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  3. either of the consonant sounds represented by this letter.

Origin of pes

First recorded in 1835-45, pes is from the Latin word pēs

Examples for pes

In the Pinnipedia the pes differs much from that in the Carnivora vera.

In the Echidnidae the pes is turned outwards and backwards in walking.

The pes consists of two parts, the ankle or tarsus and the foot.

The description of the foot in the diagnosis of the family is based on the pes of this species.

The metatarsals are ankylosed together, and the pes has four digits.

Brevipes is from brevis, short; pes, foot; so called because of its short stem.

All the limbs are plantigrade and pentedactylate, and the digits of the pes are clawed.

The Strombus (pes pelecani) with and without its dilated lip; also some small Crabs, and other things.

This is divisible into three portions, the thigh, the crus or shin, and the pes.

The pes is digitigrade or plantigrade, and has three, rarely four, digits.

Word Value for pes
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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