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Is bourne a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bourne is a Scrabble US word. The word bourne is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

B3O1U1R1N1E1

Is bourne a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bourne is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3O1U1R1N1E1

Is bourne a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bourne is a Words With Friends word. The word bourne is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4O1U2R1N2E1

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6-letter words (3 found)

BOURNE,UNBORE,UNROBE,

5-letter words (4 found)

BONER,BORNE,BOURN,ROUEN,

4-letter words (17 found)

BONE,BORE,BORN,BOUN,BREN,BURN,EBON,EURO,ONER,OURN,RENO,ROBE,RONE,ROUE,RUBE,RUNE,UNBE,

3-letter words (30 found)

BEN,BON,BOR,BRO,BRU,BUN,BUR,EON,ERN,NEB,NOB,NOR,NUB,NUR,OBE,ONE,ORB,ORE,OUR,REB,REN,REO,ROB,ROE,RUB,RUE,RUN,URB,URE,URN,

2-letter words (15 found)

BE,BO,EN,ER,NE,NO,NU,OB,OE,ON,OR,OU,RE,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 70 words from bourne according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bourne

bourne

Pronunciation

  • (with the horse-hoarse merger)
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːn/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn], /bʊɹn/
    • Homophone: borne (see there for more)
    • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
  • (without the horse–hoarse merger)
    • (rhotic) IPA(key): /boːɹn/
    • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /boən/

Etymology 1

Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.

Noun

bourne (countable and uncountable, plural bournes)

  1. (countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
  2. (archaic) A goal or destination.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.

Noun

bourne (plural bournes)

  1. (countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
Derived terms
  • (seasonal stream): nailbourne, winterbourne
  • (placenames): Middlebourne
Related terms
  • (seasonal stream): bourn (“small stream”), burn (“stream”)

References

Anagrams

  • unbore, unrobe

Source: wiktionary.org