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Is cull a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cull is a Scrabble US word. The word cull is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is cull a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cull is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

C3U1L1L1

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4-letter words (1 found)

CULL,

You can make 1 words from cull according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cull

cull ucll clul lcul ulcl lucl cull ucll clul lcul ulcl lucl cllu lclu cllu lclu llcu llcu ullc lulc ullc lulc lluc lluc

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Definitions and meaning of cull

cull

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kʌl/
  • Rhymes: -ʌl

Etymology 1

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.

Verb

cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled)

  1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
    • 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
  2. To gather, collect.
  3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  4. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
  5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  6. (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
Translations

Noun

cull (plural culls)

  1. A selection.
  2. An organized killing of selected animals.
  3. (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
  4. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
  5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
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Etymology 2

Perhaps an abbreviation of cully.

Noun

cull (plural culls)

  1. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:dupe
Derived terms

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • cullë

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g(')elt- (“womb”). Compare Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Old English child.

Noun

cull m

  1. (Gheg) boy, child

Derived terms

  • cullak

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkuʎ]
  • Rhymes: -uʎ

Verb

cull

  1. inflection of collir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org