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Is culver a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word culver is a Scrabble US word. The word culver is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is culver a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word culver is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3U1L1V4E1R1

Is culver a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word culver is a Words With Friends word. The word culver is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CULVER,

5-letter words (6 found)

CRUEL,CRUVE,CURVE,LUCRE,LURVE,ULCER,

4-letter words (9 found)

CLUE,CRUE,CURE,CURL,ECRU,ERUV,LUCE,LURE,RULE,

3-letter words (15 found)

CEL,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,LEU,LEV,LUR,LUV,REC,REV,RUC,RUE,ULE,URE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EL,ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from culver according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of culver

culver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌlvə/
  • Rhymes: -ʌlvə

Etymology 1

From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”).

Noun

culver (plural culvers)

  1. (now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
    • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
      The palsie plagues my pulses
      when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
      your culuers take, or matchles make
      your Chanticleare or sullen
    • 1885, The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:
      a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
Synonyms
  • wood pigeon, wood-pigeon, woodpigeon
Translations

Etymology 2

From culverin.

Noun

culver (plural culvers)

  1. A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • colvere, colvore, colvre, cullfre, culvere, culvre

Etymology

From Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkulvər/

Noun

culver (plural culveres or culveren)

  1. A dove (Columba spp.)
  2. An affectionate term of familiarity.

Synonyms

  • douve

Descendants

  • English: culver

References

  • “culver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org