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Is carr a Scrabble word?

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

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Is carr a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word carr is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

C3A1R1R1

Is carr a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word carr is a Words With Friends word. The word carr is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

CARR,

3-letter words (2 found)

ARC,CAR,

2-letter words (1 found)

AR,

You can make 4 words from carr according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of carr

carr

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɑː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kɑɹ/
  • Homophones: car, Carr, Karr
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety, itself from Old English carr; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
  2. In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian; possibly adopted from a Cumbric *carreg, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

Anagrams

  • ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cárr (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”), from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Nowadays the sense “automobile” is reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /kɑːɾˠ/, /kaːɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /kaɾˠ/, /kaːɾˠ/
  • Homophone: cár (most pronunciations)

Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

  1. car (automobile)
  2. cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (car, automobile): gluaisteán
  • (cart): féan

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic, perhaps from Old Welsh carrecc, from Proto-Brythonic *karreg, from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

Noun

carr m

  1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

  • stāncarr

Descendants

  • Middle English: *carr
    • English: carr (dialectal)

Source: wiktionary.org