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What does carr mean? Is carr a Scrabble word?

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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:

C3A1R1R1

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):

C4A1R1R1

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Valid words made from Carr

You can make 4 words from 'carr' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'carr'

CARR 6 

3 letters words from 'carr'

ARC 5CAR 5

2 letters words from 'carr'

AR 2 

All 4 letters words made out of carr

carr acrr crar rcar arcr racr carr acrr crar rcar arcr racr crra rcra crra rcra rrca rrca arrc rarc arrc rarc rrac rrac

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word carr. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in carr.

Definitions and meaning of carr

carr

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

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Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
    • 2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus 2008, p. 16:
      The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  2. A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

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

Anagrams

  • ACRR

Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cárr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): [kɑːɾˠ]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): [kæːɾˠ]

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

  • "carr" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

Noun

carr m

  1. (Northumbria) stone, rock

Source: wiktionary.org
  • an alder wood.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)