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Is bugle a Scrabble word?

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

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Is bugle a Scrabble UK word?

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

B3U1G2L1E1

Is bugle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bugle is a Words With Friends word. The word bugle is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

BUGLE,BULGE,

4-letter words (5 found)

BLUE,GLUE,GULE,LUBE,LUGE,

3-letter words (11 found)

BEG,BEL,BUG,GEL,GUB,GUE,GUL,LEG,LEU,LUG,ULE,

2-letter words (4 found)

BE,EL,GU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from bugle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of bugle

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Definitions and meaning of bugle

bugle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbjuːɡəl/
  • Rhymes: -uːɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
    Hypernyms: musical instrument, wind instrument, brass instrument
    Coordinate terms: cornet, flugelhorn, trumpet
  3. The sound of something that bugles.
  4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → French: bugle
Translations

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
Synonyms
  • trumpet
Translations

Etymology 2

From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
Translations

Adjective

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

  1. (obsolete) jet-black

Etymology 3

From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

  1. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
    Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine, common bugle
Derived terms
  • bitter bugle (Lycopus americanus, Lycopus europaeus)
  • blue bugle (Ajuga reptans, Ajuga genevensis))
  • bugleweed (Ajuga spp.)
  • carpet bugle (Ajuga spp.)
  • common bugle (Ajuga reptans)
  • creeping bugle (Ajuga reptans)
  • erect bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
  • pyramid bugle (Ajuga pyramidalis)
  • upright bugle (Ajuga genevensis))
  • water bugle (Lycopus virginicus)
  • yellow bugle (Ajuga chamaepitys)
Translations

Further reading

  • Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “* bugle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • bulge

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /byɡl/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.

Noun

bugle m (plural bugles)

  1. bugle
  2. flugelhorn

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillō (cf. bouillon).

Noun

bugle f (plural bugles)

  1. bugle, bugleweed

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būculus (“bullock”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. lbor?

Noun

bugle oblique singular, m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)

  1. bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)

Descendants

  • → Middle English: bugle (through Anglo-Norman)
    • English: bugle
      • → French: bugle
  • French: beugler

Source: wiktionary.org