verbarium

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UK/ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/US/ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/

noun

A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.

OriginLatin verbum →
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Meanings

nounverbarium (uncountable)
  1. dateduncountableA word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.

    We have played Verbarium with great pleasure, dividing the company into two sections or sides.

    1889, 'anonymous subscriber', “Indoor Games”, in The Christian Union, volume 40, page 311
    1 more example

    […] next she would play euchre twenty minutes; next it would be a game of verbarium, and so on all the day long—twenty minutes to each fleeting interest, with twenty minutes of billiards sandwiched between every two of them.

    c. 1908, Mark Twain, Dorothy Quick - Her April Fool's Anecdote

Origin

  1. Latinverbum“word”
  2. Englishverbarium

From Latin verbum (“word”) + -arium.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with verbarium

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Cite this entry
APA

verbarium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbarium

MLA

“verbarium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbarium. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “verbarium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbarium.

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