Definitions For Cognomen

noun

  • The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
  • A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

Is Cognomen a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
18

The word Cognomen is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cognomen in a Sentence

  • Richly deserved the cognomen of “Butterfingers”
  • “Christopher Columbus” is the Latinized cognomen of the navigator who was known to his Spanish crewmates as Cristóbal Colón

Synonyms for Cognomen

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