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Is carabin a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word carabin is a Scrabble US word. The word carabin is worth 11 points in Scrabble:
C3A1R1A1B3I1N1
Is carabin a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word carabin is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:
C3A1R1A1B3I1N1
Is carabin a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word carabin is a Words With Friends word. The word carabin is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
C4A1R1A1B4I1N2
You can make 83 words from carabin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
carabin (plural carabins)
1583 in the sense "light cavalrist". Later (1803) also "medical student". Etymology uncertain, suggestions include scarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague" (1521), probably an ironic metaphor from a meaning "plague beetle" (from the family of escarbot, from Latin scarabaeus). This suggestion implies that the soldiers called carabins were named after their reputation of rapidly and reliably dispatching of their enemies. Alternatively, the meaning "medical student" may be primary, the ironic meaning being attached to "surgeons" (carabin de St Côme, recorded 1650, Saint Cosmas being their patron), with the transfer to "light cavalrist" taking place with a certain military unit enroled under the banner of the same saint.
Possibly ultimately related to or from Arabic خَرَبَ (ḵaraba, “to ruin”).
carabin m (plural carabins)