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Is captor a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word captor is a Scrabble US word. The word captor is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is captor a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word captor is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3A1P3T1O1R1

Is captor a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (2 found)

CAPTOR,CARTOP,

5-letter words (7 found)

ACTOR,APORT,CAPOT,COAPT,COPRA,PORTA,TAROC,

4-letter words (29 found)

ACRO,ARCO,ATOC,ATOP,CAPO,CARP,CART,COAT,CRAP,CROP,OCTA,ORCA,PACO,PACT,PART,PORT,PRAO,PRAT,PROA,RAPT,RATO,ROTA,TACO,TARO,TARP,TORA,TORC,TRAP,TROP,

3-letter words (35 found)

ACT,APO,APT,ARC,ART,CAP,CAR,CAT,COP,COR,COT,OAR,OAT,OCA,OPA,OPT,ORA,ORC,ORT,PAC,PAR,PAT,POA,POT,PRO,RAP,RAT,ROC,ROT,TAO,TAP,TAR,TOC,TOP,TOR,

2-letter words (8 found)

AR,AT,OP,OR,PA,PO,TA,TO,

You can make 81 words from captor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of captor

captor

Alternative forms

  • captour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæptɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)

Noun

captor (plural captors)

  1. One who is holding a captive or captives.
  2. One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.

Synonyms

  • (one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper
  • (one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber

Translations

See also

  • captee
  • captive
  • captivity

Anagrams

  • cartop, proact

Latin

Etymology

From the verb capio (“I take, capture, seize”).

Verb

captor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of captō

Noun

captor m (genitive captōris); third declension

  1. who catches or captures
  2. a captor
  3. a hunter, huntsman

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “captor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • captor 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)
  • captor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin captor.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: cap‧tor

Noun

captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)

  1. captor

Further reading

  • “captor” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “captor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “captor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “captor” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin captor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kabˈtoɾ/ [kaβ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: cap‧tor

Noun

captor m (plural captores, feminine captora, feminine plural captoras)

  1. captor

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org