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Yes. The word clown is a Scrabble US word. The word clown is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (1 found)

CLOWN,

4-letter words (5 found)

CLON,CLOW,COWL,LOWN,NOWL,

3-letter words (8 found)

COL,CON,COW,LOW,NOW,OWL,OWN,WON,

2-letter words (5 found)

LO,NO,ON,OW,WO,

You can make 19 words from clown according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of clown

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Definitions and meaning of clown

clown

Alternative forms

  • clowne, cloyne (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”), likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”). Compare also North Frisian klönne (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kluns (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kloen (“uncouth person, lout”). Unlikely from Latin colōnus (“colonist, farmer”), although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kloun, IPA(key): /klaʊn/
  • Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

clown (plural clowns)

  1. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
  2. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
    He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.
  3. A stupid or badly-behaved person.
  4. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
  5. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
    • August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
      He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
  6. A clownfish.

Synonyms

  • (person who acts in a silly fashion): See Thesaurus:fool, jester, & laughingstock

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

clown (third-person singular simple present clowns, present participle clowning, simple past and past participle clowned)

  1. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
  2. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
    Synonym: clown on

Derived terms

  • clown about (British)
  • clown around
  • clownophobia

See also

  • coulrophobia
  • jester
  • jackpudding

Basque

Etymology

From English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klau̯n/ [klãũ̯n]
  • Rhymes: -au̯n
  • Hyphenation: clown

Noun

clown anim

  1. clown (entertainer)
    Synonym: pailazo

Declension

Further reading

  • "clown" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɑu̯n/
  • Hyphenation: clown
  • Rhymes: -ɑu̯n

Noun

clown m (plural clowns, diminutive clowntje n)

  1. clown (entertainer)

Derived terms

  • circusclown
  • clownsneus
  • clownvis

See also

  • august
  • harlekijn
  • paljas
  • pierrot
  • nar
  • witte clown
  • zot

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klun/
  • Homophone: clowns

Noun

clown m (plural clowns, feminine clownesse)

  1. clown (performer)
    Synonym: (Louisiana) macaque
  2. clown (person who acts in a comic way)

Derived terms

  • pantalon clown /pantalon de clown

Further reading

  • “clown”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklawn/
  • Rhymes: -awn

Noun

clown m (invariable)

  1. clown (artist)
    Synonym: pagliaccio

References

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klawn/
  • Rhymes: -awn
  • Syllabification: clown

Noun

clown m pers

  1. (comedy) Alternative spelling of klaun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • clown in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • clown in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

clown m (plural clowni)

  1. Alternative form of clovn

Declension

References

  • clown in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • clon

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklon/ [ˈklõn]
  • Rhymes: -on

Noun

clown m (plural clownes)

  1. clown (circus performance artist)
    Synonym: payaso

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “clown”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From English clown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklaʊn/

Noun

clown c

  1. clown

Declension

Synonyms

  • pajas

Derived terms

  • clownaktig
  • clownfisk

References

  • clown in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klou̯n/
  • IPA(key): /klɔu̯n/
  • Rhymes: -ou̯n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English clown.

Noun

clown m (plural clowniaid)

  1. clown

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • closwn (colloquial, first-person singular conditional)

Verb

clown

  1. first-person plural present/future of cloi
  2. first-person singular imperfect/conditional of cloi
  3. (literary) first-person plural imperative of cloi

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Source: wiktionary.org