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Is beggar a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word beggar is a Scrabble US word. The word beggar is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is beggar a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word beggar is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

BAGGER,BEGGAR,

5-letter words (6 found)

AGGER,BARGE,BEGAR,EGGAR,GAGER,GARBE,

4-letter words (15 found)

ABER,AGER,AREG,BARE,BEAR,BERG,BRAE,BRAG,GAGE,GARB,GARE,GEAR,GRAB,RAGE,RAGG,

3-letter words (20 found)

AGE,ARB,ARE,BAE,BAG,BAR,BEG,BRA,EAR,EGG,ERA,ERG,GAB,GAE,GAG,GAR,GER,RAG,REB,REG,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AE,AG,AR,BA,BE,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from beggar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of beggar

beggar

Alternative forms

  • begger (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg +‎ -ar.

Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɡɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɡə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡə(ɹ)

Noun

beggar (plural beggars)

  1. A person who begs.
    • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
      Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
  2. A person suffering from extreme poverty.
  3. (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
  4. (UK) A minced oath for bugger.

Synonyms

  • (who begs): mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant, see also Thesaurus:beggar
  • (extremely poor person): palliard, pauper, vagabond, see also Thesaurus:pauper

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Verb

beggar (third-person singular simple present beggars, present participle beggaring, simple past and past participle beggared)

  1. (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

Synonyms

  • ruin

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Anagrams

  • bagger

Middle English

Noun

beggar

  1. Alternative form of beggere

Source: wiktionary.org