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Is cheroot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cheroot is a Scrabble US word. The word cheroot is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is cheroot a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cheroot is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3H4E1R1O1O1T1

Is cheroot a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cheroot is a Words With Friends word. The word cheroot is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CHEROOT,

6-letter words (8 found)

COHORT,COOTER,HECTOR,HOOTER,ROCHET,ROTCHE,TOCHER,TROCHE,

5-letter words (14 found)

CHERT,CHORE,COHOE,COOER,OCHER,OCHRE,ORTHO,OTHER,RECTO,RETCH,ROTCH,THORO,THROE,TORCH,

4-letter words (31 found)

CERO,CERT,CHER,COHO,COOT,CORE,COTE,COTH,ECHO,ECHT,ETCH,HERO,HOER,HOOR,HOOT,HORE,HOTE,OCHE,ROCH,ROHE,ROOT,ROTE,ROTO,TECH,TEHR,THRO,TOCO,TOHO,TORC,TORE,TORO,

3-letter words (37 found)

CHE,COO,COR,COT,ECH,ECO,ETH,HER,HET,HOC,HOE,HOO,HOT,OCH,OHO,OOH,OOR,OOT,ORC,ORE,ORT,REC,REH,REO,RET,RHO,ROC,ROE,ROO,ROT,TEC,THE,THO,TOC,TOE,TOO,TOR,

2-letter words (13 found)

CH,EH,ER,ET,HE,HO,OE,OH,OO,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 105 words from cheroot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cheroot

cheroot

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll (of tobacco)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃəˈɹuːt/, /t͡ʃə-/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

cheroot (plural cheroots)

  1. A cigar with square-cut ends.
    • 1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, [2]
      Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business.
    • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay", in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922, [3]
      ’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green, / An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen, / An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot:
    • 1986, Heinrich Böll, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by Leila Vennewitz, New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97,
      I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.
    • 2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten,
      Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.

Derived terms

  • exotic cheroot

Descendants

  • → Assamese: চুৰট (surot)
  • → Bengali: চুরুট (curuṭ), চুরট (curoṭ)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चुरुट (curuṭ), चुरूट (curūṭ)
  • → Nepali: चुरोट (curoṭ)
  • → Odia: ଚୁରଟ୍ (curôṭ)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਚੁਰਟ (curaṭ)

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Source: wiktionary.org