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

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Is country a Scrabble UK word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

COUNTRY,

6-letter words (3 found)

COUNTY,OUTCRY,ROUNCY,

5-letter words (13 found)

CORNU,CORNY,COUNT,COURT,CRONY,CROUT,CURNY,CYTON,RUNTY,TRONC,UNCOY,YOURN,YOURT,

4-letter words (31 found)

CONY,CORN,CORY,COUR,CRON,CUNT,CURN,CURT,NOUT,OURN,RONT,ROUT,RUNT,RYOT,TONY,TORC,TORN,TORY,TOUN,TOUR,TRON,TROU,TROY,TUNY,TURN,TYRO,UNCO,UNTO,YONT,YOUR,YURT,

3-letter words (33 found)

CON,COR,COT,COY,CRU,CRY,CUR,CUT,NOR,NOT,NOY,NUR,NUT,ONY,ORC,ORT,OUR,OUT,ROC,ROT,RUC,RUN,RUT,RYU,TOC,TON,TOR,TOY,TRY,TUN,URN,YON,YOU,

2-letter words (13 found)

NO,NU,NY,ON,OR,OU,OY,TO,UN,UR,UT,YO,YU,

You can make 94 words from country according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of country

country

Alternative forms

  • contree, countrey (archaic)
  • contrey, countre, countrie (obsolete)
  • counthry (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English contre, contree, contreie, from Old French contree, from Vulgar Latin (terra) contrāta (“(land) lying opposite; (land) spread before”), derived from Latin contra (“against, opposite”). Cognate with Scots kintra.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kŭn'tri
    • (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkʌntɹi/, [ˈkʰʌnt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷi]
    • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɐntɹi/
  • (common in ESL) IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntɹi/
  • Hyphenation: coun‧try
  • Rhymes: (UK, US, Canada) -ʌntɹi

Noun

country (plural countries)

  1. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state. [from 14th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country
    • 2010, The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:
      These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
  2. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc. [from 13th c.]
  4. (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside. [from 16th c.]
  5. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region. [from 13th c.]
  6. (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
  7. Ellipsis of country music. [from 20th c.]
  8. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

Usage notes

The geographical sense of "country" usually refers to a sovereign state, that is, a nation with no administrative dependence on another one, which is the definition adopted in most world maps. In a broader sense, however, "country" may also refer to polities with some degree of autonomy and cultural identity but still under the sovereignty of another state. Examples of the latter include Scotland, Tibet, Abkhazia, and Greenland. Such usage may be interpreted as supporting secessionism of these polities by others.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:country.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Countries of the world

Adjective

country (not comparable)

  1. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
  2. Of or connected to country music.
  3. (India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

Translations

References

  • “country”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • country in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • "country" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 81.
  • “country”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kau̯ntri/ [kãũ̯n̪.t̪ri]
  • Rhymes: -au̯ntri

Noun

country inan

  1. country music

Declension

Further reading

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

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • kantri

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English country.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑntri/, [ˈkɑ̝n̪t̪ri]

Noun

country

  1. country music

Declension

Synonyms

  • countrymusiikki
  • kantrimusiikki

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “country”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

From English. Doublet of contrée.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kœ̃.tʁi/

Noun

country m (uncountable)

  1. country music

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English country.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkawn.tri/, (careful style) /ˈkan.tri/
  • Rhymes: -awntri, (careful style) -antri

Noun

country m (invariable)

  1. (music) country music

References

Polish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from country music.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkan.trɨ/
  • Rhymes: -antrɨ
  • Syllabification: coun‧try

Noun

country n (indeclinable)

  1. country, country music

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English country.

The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the <oun> represents /aʊn/ in the English etymon.

Pronunciation

Noun

country m (uncountable)

  1. country music

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English country.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkan.tri/

Adjective

country m or n (feminine singular countryă, masculine plural countryi, feminine and neuter plural countrye)

  1. country (music)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English country. Doublet of contrada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkantɾi/ [ˈkãn̪.t̪ɾi]
  • Rhymes: -antɾi

Noun

country m (uncountable)

  1. country music

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

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English country. First attested in 1965.

Noun

country c (uncountable)

  1. (music) country, country music
    Synonym: countrymusik

Declension

Further reading

  • country in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

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