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

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5-letter words (1 found)

BOWER,

4-letter words (9 found)

BORE,BOWR,BREW,BROW,OWER,OWRE,ROBE,WERO,WORE,

3-letter words (15 found)

BOR,BOW,BRO,OBE,ORB,ORE,OWE,REB,REO,REW,ROB,ROE,ROW,WEB,WOE,

2-letter words (11 found)

BE,BO,ER,EW,OB,OE,OR,OW,RE,WE,WO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from bower according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of bower

bower obwer bwoer wboer owber wober boewr obewr beowr ebowr oebwr eobwr bweor wbeor bewor ebwor webor ewbor owebr woebr oewbr eowbr weobr ewobr bowre obwre bwore wbore owbre wobre borwe obrwe browe rbowe orbwe robwe bwroe wbroe brwoe rbwoe wrboe rwboe owrbe worbe orwbe rowbe wrobe rwobe boerw oberw beorw eborw oebrw eobrw borew obrew broew rboew orbew robew berow ebrow breow rbeow erbow rebow oerbw eorbw orebw roebw erobw reobw bwero wbero bewro ebwro webro ewbro bwreo wbreo brweo rbweo wrbeo rwbeo berwo ebrwo brewo rbewo erbwo rebwo werbo ewrbo wrebo rwebo erwbo rewbo owerb woerb oewrb eowrb weorb eworb owreb woreb orweb roweb wroeb rwoeb oerwb eorwb orewb roewb erowb reowb werob ewrob wreob rweob erwob rewob

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Definitions and meaning of bower

bower

Pronunciation

  • Etymologies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7:
    (UK) IPA(key): /baʊ.əɹ/, /baʊəɹ/
    Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)
  • Etymologies 5 and 6:
    (UK) IPA(key): /bəʊ.əɹ/, /bəʊəɹ/
    Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
  3. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
  4. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
  5. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
Alternative forms
  • bowre (obsolete)
Synonyms
  • boudoir
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

bower (third-person singular simple present bowers, present participle bowering, simple past and past participle bowered)

  2. To embower; to enclose.
  3. (obsolete) To lodge.

Etymology 2

From Middle English boueer, from Old English būr, ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, builder”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and boor. More at neighbour.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. A peasant; a farmer.

Etymology 3

From German Bauer. A doublet of etymology 2 and of the German-origin surname Bauer.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
Derived terms
  • best bower
  • left bower
  • right bower

Etymology 4

From the bow of a ship +‎ -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
Derived terms
  • best bower
  • bower anchor
  • small bower

Etymology 5

From bow (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  1. One who bows or bends.
  2. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Etymology 6

From bow (noun) +‎ -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
Derived terms
  • diddley bower

Etymology 7

From bough, compare brancher.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

  2. (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

See also

  • Bower Ashton

References

“bower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • bowre

Source: wiktionary.org