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Yes. The word adder is a Scrabble US word. The word adder is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word adder is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (6 found)

ADDER,ADRED,AREDD,DARED,DREAD,READD,

4-letter words (9 found)

ARED,DARE,DEAD,DEAR,DRAD,EARD,RADE,READ,REDD,

3-letter words (9 found)

ADD,ARD,ARE,DAD,DAE,EAR,ERA,RAD,RED,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AE,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 34 words from adder according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of adder

adder

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈædɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).

See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.

Alternative forms

  • edder (dialectal)

Noun

adder (plural adders)

  1. (obsolete) Any snake.
  2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
    1. (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
      1. A common European adder (Vipera berus).
    2. A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
    3. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
      1. A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
      2. A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
    4. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
      1. Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
      2. A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
    5. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
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Etymology 2

From add +‎ -er.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

  1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  2. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
  3. Something which adds or increases.
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Further reading

  • adder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • dared, dread, radde, re-add, readd

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈadər/

Noun

adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)

  1. viper, adder

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adder, adre, rebracketing of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑ.dər/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧der
  • Rhymes: -ɑdər

Noun

adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)

  1. viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
  2. common viper, Vipera berus

Hypernyms

  • slang

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: adder
  • Negerhollands: adder

Anagrams

  • dader

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

adder

  1. imperative of addere

Old Prussian

Etymology

Borrowed from Early German adder, dialectal variant of oder (“or”).

Conjunction

adder

  1. or
  2. but, however
  3. only, but

References

  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “adder”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 48

Source: wiktionary.org