Definitions For Bissextile
Noun
BISSEXTILE (plural BISSEXTILEs) {{syn of, en, leap year, nodot=a}}: a year with an intercalary day.Translations
leap yearAdjective
(not comparable) having, having an intercalary day, particularly the quadrennial leap day of the julian and gregorian calendars traditionally placed as a "second sixth" day before march 1st.Hypernyms
intercalary, leapDerived terms
bissextile month bissextile yearRelated terms
bissextTranslations
Bulgarian: високосен Finnish: karkausvuosi, alt=karkaus- French: bissextil Ido: bisextila Latin: bisextilis Persian: کبیسه, tr=kabise, اندرهلی (andarheli) Portuguese: bissexto, m Russian: високо́сный Spanish: bisiestoEtymology
From {{etyl, la, en}} bisextilis annus, , bissextile year,, in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford English Dictionary. from bisextus + -ilis, from bis-, , two; twice; doubled + sextus, , sixth + dies, , day, from the julian calendar's original reckoning of its quadrennial intercalary day as a 48-hour February 24, subsequently distinguished as the two separate days of the sixth day before the March calends (sexto Kalendas Martii) and the "doubled sixth day"., in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (February 24 is now normally understood as five days before the first of March, but was called the sixth by the Romans owing to their inclusive counting of dates. See w:roman calendar, roman calendar on w:main page, wikipedia.)Is Bissextile a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble UK
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English International (SOWPODS)
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
21
The word Bissextile is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends