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What does colour mean? Is colour a Scrabble word?

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Is colour a Scrabble word?

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

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Is colour a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3O1L1O1U1R1

Is colour a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word colour is a Words With Friends word. The word colour is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4O1L2O1U2R1

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6-letter words (1 found)

COLOUR,

5-letter words (3 found)

CLOUR,COLOR,CROOL,

4-letter words (8 found)

CLOU,COOL,COUR,CURL,LOCO,LOOR,LOUR,ROUL,

3-letter words (15 found)

COL,COO,COR,CRU,CUR,LOO,LOR,LOU,LUR,OOR,ORC,OUR,ROC,ROO,RUC,

2-letter words (5 found)

LO,OO,OR,OU,UR,

You can make 32 words from colour according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of colour

colour

Alternative forms

  • color (U.S. spelling)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʰɐlɜ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.

Related terms

  • colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or colours)

  1. colour, hue, shade
  2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
  3. method (literary or rhetorical)
  4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

  • English: color, colour
  • Scots: colour

See also

References

  • “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Old French

Noun

colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

Source: wiktionary.org