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Is climb a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word climb is a Scrabble US word. The word climb is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is climb a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word climb is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3L1I1M3B3

Is climb a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word climb is a Words With Friends word. The word climb is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

CLIMB,

4-letter words (1 found)

LIMB,

3-letter words (4 found)

LIB,MIB,MIC,MIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

BI,LI,MI,

You can make 9 words from climb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of climb

climb

English

Etymology

From Middle English climben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: klīm, IPA(key): /klaɪm/
  • Homophone: clime
  • Rhymes: -aɪm

Verb

climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past climbed or (archaic) clomb, past participle climbed or (archaic) clumb)

  1. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
  2. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
    climbing a tree
  3. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  4. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  5. (intransitive) To practise the sport of climbing.
  6. (intransitive) To jump high.
  7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  8. To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.
  9. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Usage notes

In the past, the forms clomb and clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectal.

Conjugation

Synonyms

(get to the top of): scale

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Noun

climb (plural climbs)

  1. An act of climbing.
  2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  3. An effort of moving upward.

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Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism; transferred sense from English climb.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklajmb/, (careful style) /ˈklajm/
  • Rhymes: -ajmb, (careful style) -ajm

Noun

climb m (usually invariable, plural climbs)

  1. (aviation) variometer, rate-of-climb indicator
    Synonym: variometro

Source: wiktionary.org