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What does burl mean? Is burl a Scrabble word?

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Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for burl

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Is burl a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word burl is a Scrabble US word. The word burl is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

B3U1R1L1

Is burl a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word burl is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

B3U1R1L1

Is burl a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word burl is a Words With Friends word. The word burl is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4U2R1L2

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Valid words made from Burl

You can make 8 words from 'burl' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'burl'

BLUR 6BURL 6

3 letters words from 'burl'

BRU 5BUR 5
LUR 3RUB 5
URB 5 

2 letters words from 'burl'

UR 2 

All 4 letters words made out of burl

burl ubrl brul rbul urbl rubl bulr ublr blur lbur ulbr lubr brlu rblu blru lbru rlbu lrbu urlb rulb ulrb lurb rlub lrub

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word burl. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in burl.

Definitions and meaning of burl

burl

Alternative forms

  • burr (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɝl/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɜːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l

Noun

burl (plural burls)

  1. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
  2. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
  3. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

Translations

Verb

burl (third-person singular simple present burls, present participle burling, simple past and past participle burled)

  1. To remove the knots in cloth.

Anagrams

  • blur

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to finish cloth by removing knots.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)