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Is culvert a Scrabble word?

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

C3U1L1V4E1R1T1

Is culvert a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3U1L1V4E1R1T1

Is culvert a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word culvert is a Words With Friends word. The word culvert is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CULVERT,

6-letter words (5 found)

CULTER,CULVER,CURVET,CUTLER,RELUCT,

5-letter words (15 found)

CRUEL,CRUET,CRUVE,CULET,CURET,CURVE,CUTER,ERUCT,LUCRE,LURVE,LUTER,RECUT,TRUCE,ULCER,VERTU,

4-letter words (18 found)

CELT,CERT,CLUE,CRUE,CULT,CURE,CURL,CURT,CUTE,ECRU,ERUV,LUCE,LURE,LUTE,RULE,TRUE,TULE,VERT,

3-letter words (24 found)

CEL,CRU,CUE,CUR,CUT,ECU,ELT,LET,LEU,LEV,LUR,LUV,REC,RET,REV,RUC,RUE,RUT,TEC,TEL,ULE,URE,UTE,VET,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ER,ET,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 71 words from culvert according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of culvert

culvert

Etymology

Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested:

  1. a dialectal word,
  2. a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor,
  3. a derivation from French couvert (“covered”), although couvert is not used in this sense and the French translation of culvert is ponceau or buse de drainage,
  4. a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch coul-, from French couler (“to flow”), and Dutch vaart (“a trip by boat, a canal”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)t/

Noun

culvert (plural culverts)

  1. A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
      A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.

Derived terms

  • Thorpe Culvert

Translations

Verb

culvert (third-person singular simple present culverts, present participle culverting, simple past and past participle culverted)

  1. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • colwarde, culvard, culvart, kilvarde

Etymology

From Old French colvert, from Late Latin collībertus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkulvɛrt/, /ˈkulward/

Adjective

culvert

  1. vile, nefarious

References

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

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