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Is buckra a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word buckra is a Scrabble US word. The word buckra is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

B3U1C3K5R1A1

Is buckra a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word buckra is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

B3U1C3K5R1A1

Is buckra a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word buckra is a Words With Friends word. The word buckra is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4U2C4K5R1A1

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6-letter words (1 found)

BUCKRA,

5-letter words (2 found)

BRACK,BURKA,

4-letter words (18 found)

BACK,BARK,BAUK,BAUR,BRAK,BUCK,BURA,BURK,CARB,CARK,CAUK,CRAB,CURB,KBAR,KRAB,RACK,RAKU,RUCK,

3-letter words (18 found)

ARB,ARC,ARK,AUK,BAC,BAR,BRA,BRU,BUR,CAB,CAR,CRU,CUB,CUR,KAB,RUB,RUC,URB,

2-letter words (5 found)

AB,AR,BA,KA,UR,

You can make 44 words from buckra according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of buckra

buckra

Alternative forms

  • backra, bakra, buccra

Etymology

From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara; compare Gullah buckra (“white person”).

Noun

buckra (plural buckras)

  1. (Caribbean, derogatory) A white person.
  2. (dated, now rare, African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A poor white person.
    • 1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,[6]
      What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.

Adjective

buckra (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, archaic) White.
    a buckra yam

Anagrams

  • burcak

Gullah

Alternative forms

  • bukra, buckruh

Etymology

From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara. Compare Jamaican Creole backra, Sranan Tongo bakra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌkrə/

Noun

buckra

  1. white person

Further reading

  • Frederic Cassidy, "Sources of the African Element in Gullah" in Lawrence Carrington (ed.), Studies in Caribbean Language (1983).

Source: wiktionary.org