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Is carrot a Scrabble word?

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

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Is carrot a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3A1R1R1O1T1

Is carrot a Words With Friends word?

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

C4A1R1R1O1T1

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6-letter words (2 found)

CARROT,TROCAR,

5-letter words (2 found)

ACTOR,TAROC,

4-letter words (18 found)

ACRO,ARCO,ATOC,CARR,CART,COAT,OCTA,ORCA,ORRA,RATO,ROAR,RORT,ROTA,TACO,TARO,TORA,TORC,TORR,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACT,ARC,ART,CAR,CAT,COR,COT,OAR,OAT,OCA,ORA,ORC,ORT,RAT,ROC,ROT,TAO,TAR,TOC,TOR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AR,AT,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 47 words from carrot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of carrot

carrot

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Etymology

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”).

  • Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
  • Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/
  • (General American) enPR: kâr'ət, kĕr'ət IPA(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
  • Rhymes: -æɹət
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger)
  • Homophones: carat, karat
  • (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
  • Hyphenation: car‧rot

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

  1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
    Synonym: (obsolete) more
  2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
  4. (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
    Coordinate term: stick
  5. (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
  6. (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
  7. (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person

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See also

  • Queen Anne's lace

References

  • “carrot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Verb

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

  1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Derived terms

  • carroting

Anagrams

  • trocar

Source: wiktionary.org