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Is candor a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word candor is a Scrabble US word. The word candor is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is candor a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word candor is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

C3A1N1D2O1R1

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

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6-letter words (3 found)

CANDOR,CARDON,DACRON,

5-letter words (8 found)

ACORN,ADORN,ANDRO,CARON,DRACO,NARCO,RACON,RADON,

4-letter words (20 found)

ACRO,ARCO,CARD,CARN,CODA,COND,CORD,CORN,CRAN,CRON,DARN,DONA,DRAC,NARC,NARD,ORAD,ORCA,RAND,ROAD,ROAN,

3-letter words (26 found)

ADO,AND,ARC,ARD,CAD,CAN,CAR,COD,CON,COR,DAN,DOC,DON,DOR,NOD,NOR,OAR,OCA,ODA,ORA,ORC,ORD,RAD,RAN,ROC,ROD,

2-letter words (10 found)

AD,AN,AR,DA,DO,NA,NO,OD,ON,OR,

You can make 67 words from candor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of candor

candor

Alternative forms

  • candour (British, Canada)

Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæn.dɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

  1. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
  2. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]
    Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia
    Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie
  3. Impartiality.
    Synonyms: equity, fairness

Usage notes

Sense 2 can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of candid, i.e. “the state of being candid”.

Related terms

  • candid
  • candle

Translations

Anagrams

  • Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candōrem. First attested in 1839.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈdo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [kanˈdoɾ]

Noun

candor m or f (plural candors)

  1. candor

Related terms

  • càndid

Further reading

  • “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “candor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪or]

Noun

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

  1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
  2. fairness, beauty
  3. glow, heat
  4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
  5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

  • “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: can‧dor

Noun

candor m (plural candores)

  1. candor

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “candor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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