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Yes. The word care is a Scrabble US word. The word care is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (4 found)

ACER,ACRE,CARE,RACE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,CAR,EAR,ERA,REC,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AR,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from care according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of care

care acre crae rcae arce race caer acer cear ecar aecr eacr crea rcea cera ecra reca erca arec raec aerc earc reac erac

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Definitions and meaning of care

care

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɛə/
  • (General American) enPR: kâr, IPA(key): /kɛɚ/, [kʰe(ə̯)ɻ], [kʰɛ(ə̯)ɻ]
  • (General Australian) enPR: kâr, IPA(key): /keː/
  • (dialectal) enPR: kêr IPA(key): /kɪə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ċearu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-West Germanic *karu, from Proto-Germanic *karō (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garriō, Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus). See also chary.

Noun

care (countable and uncountable, plural cares)

  1. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
  2. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Worry.
  4. (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
  5. (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
  6. (uncountable) The state of being cared for by others.
  7. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Quotations
  • 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
    ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’
Derived terms
Related terms
  • carcake
  • chary
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English caren, carien, from Old English carian (“to sorrow, grieve, be troubled, be anxious, to care for, heed”), from Proto-West Germanic *karōn (“to care”), from Proto-Germanic *karōną (“to care”).

Cognate with Old Saxon karōn (“to lament”), Middle High German karen, karn (“to complain, lament, grieve, mourn”), archaic German karen (“to groan, gasp”), Alemannic German karen, kären (“to groan, gasp”), Swedish kära (“to fall in love”), Icelandic kæra (“to care, like”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍉𐌽 (karōn, “to be concerned”).

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle caring, simple past and past participle cared)

  2. (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
  3. (intransitive, polite, formal, chiefly in the negative) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
  4. (intransitive, informal, by extension) For it to matter to, or make any difference to.
  5. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
  6. (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
Usage notes
  • The sense “to want” is most commonly found as an interrogative or negative sentence, and may take a for clause (would you care for some tea?) or (as a catenative verb) takes a to infinitive (would you care to go with me?). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
  • In the sense “to be concerned about”, care may idiomatically take a figurative amount as a direct object, as in the fixed phrase care a fig (equivalent to give a fig), or care one whit.
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References

Anagrams

  • Acre, CERA, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, acre, e-car, race, race-

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʁ/
  • Homophones: car, carent, cares, carre, carrent, carre, quarre, quarres, quarrent, quart

Verb

care

  1. inflection of carer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • acre, âcre, créa, race

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: cà‧re

Adjective

care f pl

  1. feminine plural of caro

Anagrams

  • Arce, acre, c'era, cera, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

  • carē: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.reː/, [ˈkäreː]
  • carē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.re/, [ˈkäːre]
  • cāre: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.re/, [ˈkäːrɛ]
  • cāre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.re/, [ˈkäːre]

Verb

carē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of careō

Adjective

cāre

  1. vocative masculine singular of cārus

Adverb

care (comparative carius, superlative carissimē)

  1. at a high price

References

  • “care”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “care”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • care in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English caru, ċearu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-West Germanic *karu, from Proto-Germanic *karō. See Modern English care for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaːr(ə)/

Noun

care (plural cares)

  1. grief; sorrow [from 13th c.]

Descendants

  • English: care
  • Scots: care
  • Yola: caure, caare, caar

References

  • “cāre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

care

  1. inflection of cara (“walker; frequenting”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Verb

care

  1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of carati (“to walk”)
  2. optative active singular of carati (“to walk”)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Italian quale and Aromanian cari, cai, care.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧re

Determiner

care

  1. which
Inflection

Pronoun

care

  1. which, that, who

Etymology 2

Noun

care n pl

  1. plural of car (“cart”)

Etymology 3

Verb

care

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of căra

References

  • care in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Venetian

Adjective

care f

  1. feminine plural of caro

Source: wiktionary.org