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Is born a Scrabble word?

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

B3O1R1N1

Is born a Scrabble UK word?

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

B3O1R1N1

Is born a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word born is a Words With Friends word. The word born is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4O1R1N2

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4-letter words (1 found)

BORN,

3-letter words (7 found)

BON,BOR,BRO,NOB,NOR,ORB,ROB,

2-letter words (5 found)

BO,NO,OB,ON,OR,

You can make 13 words from born according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of born

born

English

Pronunciation

  • (horse–hoarse merger)
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːn/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn]
    • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
    • Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (horse–hoarse merger); bawn (non-rhotic); barn (card–cord merger)
  • (without the horse–hoarse merger)
    • (rhotic) IPA(key): /bɔːɹn/
    • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /bɔːn/

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

Verb

born

  1. past participle of bear; given birth to.
  2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
Descendants
  • Jamaican Creole: baan
Translations

Adjective

born (not comparable)

  1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • borne
  • né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

  1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

  1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

Further reading

  • Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BORN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
  • Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “born”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[3], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.

Anagrams

  • Brno, Norb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

born f (plural bornen)

  1. (dialectal) obsolete form of bron

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • barn

Noun

born n

  1. indefinite plural of barn

Old English

Verb

born

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan

Source: wiktionary.org