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Is buckler a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word buckler is a Scrabble US word. The word buckler is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is buckler a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word buckler is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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Is buckler a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word buckler is a Words With Friends word. The word buckler is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

BRUCKLE,BUCKLER,

6-letter words (5 found)

BECURL,BUCKER,BUCKLE,BULKER,RUCKLE,

5-letter words (10 found)

BLUER,BRULE,BURKE,CLERK,CRUEL,CUBER,LUCRE,RUBEL,RUBLE,ULCER,

4-letter words (30 found)

BECK,BERK,BLUE,BLUR,BUCK,BUKE,BULK,BURK,BURL,CLUB,CLUE,CRUE,CUBE,CUKE,CURB,CURE,CURL,ECRU,KERB,LEKU,LUBE,LUCE,LUCK,LUKE,LURE,LURK,RECK,RUBE,RUCK,RULE,

3-letter words (26 found)

BEL,BRU,BUR,CEL,CRU,CUB,CUE,CUR,ECU,ELK,ERK,EUK,KEB,KUE,LEK,LEU,LUR,REB,REC,RUB,RUC,RUE,UKE,ULE,URB,URE,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,EL,ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 79 words from buckler according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of buckler

buckler

Etymology

From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌk.lə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌk.lɚ/
  • Hyphenation: buck‧ler

Noun

buckler (plural bucklers)

  1. One who buckles something.
  2. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
  3. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
  4. (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
  5. (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
  6. (nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.

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Verb

buckler (third-person singular simple present bucklers, present participle bucklering, simple past and past participle bucklered)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.

Source: wiktionary.org