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Is colored a Scrabble word?

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

C3O1L1O1R1E1D2

Is colored a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word colored is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3O1L1O1R1E1D2

Is colored a Words With Friends word?

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

C4O1L2O1R1E1D2

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7-letter words (4 found)

COLORED,CROODLE,CROOLED,DECOLOR,

6-letter words (4 found)

COLDER,COOLED,COOLER,LOCOED,

5-letter words (20 found)

CEORL,CODER,COLED,COLOR,COOED,COOER,CORED,CREDO,CROOL,DECOR,DOLCE,DOLOR,DOOCE,DOOLE,DROLE,DROOL,LOOED,LOORD,OLDER,RODEO,

4-letter words (36 found)

CERO,CLOD,CODE,COED,COLD,COLE,COOL,CORD,CORE,CRED,DECO,DELO,DERO,DOCO,DOER,DOLE,DOOL,DOOR,DORE,ECOD,EORL,LOCO,LODE,LOOR,LORD,LORE,ODOR,OLDE,OLEO,ORDO,ORLE,REDO,RODE,ROED,ROLE,ROOD,

3-letter words (31 found)

CEL,COD,COL,COO,COR,DEL,DOC,DOE,DOL,DOO,DOR,ECO,ELD,LED,LOD,LOO,LOR,ODE,OLD,OLE,OOR,ORC,ORD,ORE,REC,RED,REO,ROC,ROD,ROE,ROO,

2-letter words (11 found)

DE,DO,ED,EL,ER,LO,OD,OE,OO,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 107 words from colored according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of colored

colored

Alternative forms

  • Colored (American spelling)
  • coloured (British spelling)
  • Coloured (British spelling)

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ʹkŭlərd, IPA(key): /ˈkʌləɹd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌləɹd

Adjective

colored (comparative more colored, superlative most colored)

  1. (American spelling) Having a color.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:colored
  2. Having a particular color or kind of color.
  3. Having prominent colors; colorful.
  4. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
  5. (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
  6. (South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
  7. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

Usage notes

Referring to people—in 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “coloured” offensive. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, 11 found the term “coloured” offensive.

Coordinate terms

(mixed-race):

  • Asian
  • black, Black
  • white, White

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

colored (plural coloreds)

  1. (American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
  2. (South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
  3. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.

Translations

Verb

colored

  1. (American spelling) simple past and past participle of color

References

Further reading

  • color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • cedorol, croodle, crooled, decolor

Source: wiktionary.org