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Is boar a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word boar is a Scrabble US word. The word boar is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is boar a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word boar is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

BOAR,BORA,

3-letter words (13 found)

ABO,ARB,BAO,BAR,BOA,BOR,BRA,BRO,OAR,OBA,ORA,ORB,ROB,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AR,BA,BO,OB,OR,

You can make 21 words from boar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of boar

boar obar baor abor oabr aobr bora obra broa rboa orba roba baro abro brao rbao arbo rabo oarb aorb orab roab arob raob

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Definitions and meaning of boar

boar

Etymology

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA(key): /bɔɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA(key): /bɔː/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /boə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: bore, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Noun

boar (plural boars or boar)

  1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
  2. A male pig.
  3. A male boar (sense 1).
  4. A male bear.
  5. A male guinea pig.

Coordinate terms

  • sow

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • hog
  • pig
  • swine

Anagrams

  • Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)

  1. (historical) a Boer

Related terms

  • afrikandar

See also

  • boer (Bokmål)

References

  • “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • bouar

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou +‎ -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.

Noun

boar m (plural boari)

  1. cowherd

Declension

Related terms

  • bou

See also

  • văcar

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

  1. drill, bore

Further reading

  • “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Etymology

From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔː/

Noun

boar

  1. hedgehog

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27

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