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Is brute a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word brute is a Scrabble US word. The word brute is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is brute a Scrabble UK word?

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5-letter words (4 found)

BRUTE,BURET,REBUT,TUBER,

4-letter words (5 found)

BRUT,BUTE,RUBE,TRUE,TUBE,

3-letter words (13 found)

BET,BRU,BUR,BUT,REB,RET,RUB,RUE,RUT,TUB,URB,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,ER,ET,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 30 words from brute according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of brute

brute

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bro͞ot, IPA(key): /bɹuːt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɹut/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (dull, stupid, insensible), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (heavy). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).

Adjective

brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)

  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
  3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
  4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
  5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
Derived terms
  • brute fact
  • brute strength
Translations

Noun

brute (plural brutes)

  1. (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted. [from 17th c.]
  3. (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
  4. (archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

  1. (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Etymology 2

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

Anagrams

  • Tuber, buret, tuber, Ubert, rebut

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

brute

  1. inflection of bruut:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁyt/

Adjective

brute f sg

  1. feminine singular of brut

Noun

brute f (plural brutes)

  1. brute (animal lacking in reason, intelligence and sensibility)
  2. person without reason, person devoid of reason
  3. bully (one who imposes his will on others using violence)

Related terms

  • brutal

Further reading

  • “brute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • buter, rebut, tuber

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbru.te/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: brù‧te

Adjective

brute

  1. feminine plural of bruto

Anagrams

  • turbe

Latin

Adjective

brūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of brūtus

Source: wiktionary.org