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Is button a Scrabble word?

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

B3U1T1T1O1N1

Is button a Scrabble UK word?

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

B3U1T1T1O1N1

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Yes. The word button is a Words With Friends word. The word button is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4U2T1T1O1N2

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6-letter words (1 found)

BUTTON,

4-letter words (10 found)

BOTT,BOUN,BOUT,BUNT,BUTT,NOTT,NOUT,TOUN,TOUT,UNTO,

3-letter words (14 found)

BON,BOT,BUN,BUT,NOB,NOT,NUB,NUT,OUT,TON,TOT,TUB,TUN,TUT,

2-letter words (9 found)

BO,NO,NU,OB,ON,OU,TO,UN,UT,

You can make 34 words from button according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of button

button

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈbʌ.tən/, /ˈbʌʔ.n̩/, [ˈbʌʔ.tən], [ˈbʌʔ.tⁿn̩], /ˈbʌt.n̩/
  • Rhymes: -ʌtən

Etymology 1

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of Biden and beat. More at butt.

Noun

button (plural buttons)

  1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]
  2. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
  3. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
  4. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
  5. (botany) A bud.
  6. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
  7. (slang) The clitoris.
  8. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
  9. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
  11. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
  12. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  13. (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
  14. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
  15. (aviation) The end of a runway.
  16. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
  17. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
  18. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
  19. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  20. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
  21. (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1⁄12 inch.
  22. (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
  23. (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
  24. (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
  25. (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
  26. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
  27. (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
    Synonym: blow
  28. (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
  29. (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
    • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
      FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.
  30. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
  31. (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
  32. (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
Usage notes

For senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is named with the verb followed by button. For example, a button to start something is generally called a start button.

Hypernyms
  • (graphical user interface): widget
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: Button
  • → Hindi: बटन (baṭan)
  • → Gujarati: બટન (baṭan)
  • → Korean: 버튼 (beoteun)
  • → Maori: pātene
  • → Urdu: بٹن (baṭan)
Translations
See also
  • switch
  • toggle
  • trigger

Etymology 2

From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

button (third-person singular simple present buttons, present participle buttoning, simple past and past participle buttoned)

  1. (transitive) To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (informal) To stop talking.
Derived terms
  • buttonable
  • button-down
  • buttoner
  • button one's lip
  • button up
  • button it
  • misbutton
  • rebutton
  • unbutton
Translations

Further reading

  • button on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • not but

Middle English

Noun

button

  1. Alternative form of botoun

Source: wiktionary.org