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Is career a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word career is a Scrabble US word. The word career is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is career a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word career is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3A1R1E1E1R1

Is career a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word career is a Words With Friends word. The word career is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CAREER,

5-letter words (5 found)

ARERE,CARER,CRARE,RACER,RAREE,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACER,ACRE,CARE,CARR,CERE,CREE,RACE,RARE,REAR,

3-letter words (11 found)

ACE,ARC,ARE,CAR,CEE,EAR,ERA,ERE,ERR,REC,REE,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AR,EA,EE,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from career according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of career

career

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪə/
  • Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

career (plural careers)

  1. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
  2. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
  3. (archaic) Speed.
  4. A jouster's path during a joust.
  5. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th–18th c.]
    • 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)
      Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
  6. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
  7. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

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Translations

Verb

career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)

  1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
    Synonym: careen

Translations

Adjective

career (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)
    a career criminal

Further reading

  • "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.

Scots

Etymology

From English career.

Noun

career (plural careers)

  1. career

Source: wiktionary.org