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Is apricot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word apricot is a Scrabble US word. The word apricot is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is apricot a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word apricot is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Yes. The word apricot is a Words With Friends word. The word apricot is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (4 found)

APRICOT,APROTIC,PAROTIC,PATRICO,

6-letter words (7 found)

AORTIC,ATOPIC,CAPTOR,CARTOP,COPITA,PICARO,TROPIC,

5-letter words (24 found)

ACTOR,APORT,ARIOT,ARTIC,ATRIP,CAPOT,CAPRI,CARPI,COAPT,COATI,COPRA,CORIA,OPTIC,PARTI,PATIO,PICOT,PICRA,PORTA,RATIO,TAPIR,TAROC,TOPIC,TORIC,TRIAC,

4-letter words (54 found)

ACRO,AIRT,ARCO,ARTI,ATOC,ATOP,CAPI,CAPO,CARP,CART,CIAO,CITO,COAT,COIR,COIT,CRAP,CRIA,CRIP,CRIT,CROP,IOTA,OCTA,ORCA,OTIC,PACO,PACT,PAIR,PART,PICA,PITA,PORT,PRAO,PRAT,PROA,RAIT,RAPT,RATO,RIOT,RIPT,ROTA,ROTI,TACO,TARO,TARP,TIAR,TIRO,TOPI,TORA,TORC,TORI,TRAP,TRIO,TRIP,TROP,

3-letter words (51 found)

ACT,AIR,AIT,APO,APT,ARC,ART,CAP,CAR,CAT,CIT,COP,COR,COT,ITA,OAR,OAT,OCA,OPA,OPT,ORA,ORC,ORT,PAC,PAR,PAT,PIA,PIC,PIR,PIT,POA,POI,POT,PRO,RAI,RAP,RAT,RIA,RIP,RIT,ROC,ROT,TAI,TAO,TAP,TAR,TIC,TIP,TOC,TOP,TOR,

2-letter words (14 found)

AI,AR,AT,IO,IT,OI,OP,OR,PA,PI,PO,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 154 words from apricot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of apricot

apricot

Alternative forms

  • apricock (archaic)
  • abricock (obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/, /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /æepɹɪˈkɒt/, /æepɹɪˈkɔt/
  • Hyphenation: apri‧cot

Noun

apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)

  1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
  2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
  3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
  4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
  5. (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
  6. (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Hypernyms

  • fruit

Derived terms

Related terms

  • precocious

Translations

Adjective

apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)

  1. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Translations

See also

  • lekvar
  • Appendix:Colors

Further reading

  • apricot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Prunus armeniaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Prunus armeniaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “apricot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • aprotic, parotic, patrico

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /apʁiˈkoː/

Adjective

apricot (indeclinable)

  1. (uncommon) apricot-coloured
    Synonym: aprikosenfarben

Source: wiktionary.org