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Is callow a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word callow is a Scrabble US word. The word callow is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is callow a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word callow is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3A1L1L1O1W4

Is callow a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word callow is a Words With Friends word. The word callow is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CALLOW,

5-letter words (3 found)

ALLOW,COWAL,LOCAL,

4-letter words (14 found)

ALCO,ALOW,AWOL,CALL,CALO,CLAW,CLOW,COAL,COLA,COLL,COWL,LOCA,OLLA,WALL,

3-letter words (11 found)

ALL,AWL,CAL,CAW,COL,COW,LAC,LAW,LOW,OCA,OWL,

2-letter words (6 found)

AL,AW,LA,LO,OW,WO,

You can make 35 words from callow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of callow

callow

Etymology

From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German Low German kahl (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Swedish kal and kalka (“bald”), Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”).

Compare similar meaning and similar sounding Latin calvus (“bald”), Finnish kalju (“bald”), Persian کل (kal), and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá), which despite close resemblance to the Germanic and Slavic terms are probably false cognates with them, due to Grimm's law.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæloʊ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkaləʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æləʊ

Adjective

callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)

  1. Bald, hairless, bare.
  2. Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
  3. (by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
    callow bee
  4. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
    Antonyms: mature, experienced
  5. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
  6. Shallow or weak-willed.
  7. (of a brick) Unburnt.
  8. Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.

Derived terms

  • callowly
  • callowness

Translations

Noun

callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)

  1. A callow young bird.
  2. A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
  3. An alluvial flat.

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • low-cal

Source: wiktionary.org