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Is cumber a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word cumber is a Scrabble US word. The word cumber is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
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Is cumber a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word cumber is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
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Is cumber a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word cumber is a Words With Friends word. The word cumber is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 48 words from cumber according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English combren, borrowed from the second element of Old French encombrer, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).
cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)
From Middle English komber, kumbre (“distress; destruction”). According to the Oxford English Dictionary (1st edition, 1893; entry not updated yet), used early in the 14th century in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense, but not common till the 16th century, and then at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelt cummer. It states that the date, form, and sense, are all consistent with its being either a derivative of the verb (Etymology 1) or a shortened form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), from Old French encombre, but that the sense “trouble, distress” strikingly coincides with German Kummer, Middle High German kumber, Middle Low German kummer, and Dutch kommer, additionally providing the following note:
OF. had only combre fem. in the sense ‘heap of felled trees, stones, or the like’ (Godef.), corresponding to med.L. combra ‘a mound or mole in a river for the sake of catching fish’ (Du Cange), and akin to Merovingian L. cumbrus, pl. cumbri, combri ‘barriers of felled trees’ (Du C.), whence med.L. incumbrāre, F. encombrer, to Encumber. Cf. also Pg. combro ‘a heap of earth’. In the Meroving. L. cumbrus, Diez (s.v. Colmo saw a barbaric form, through *cumblus, of L. cumulus heap: so also Littré, Scheler, Brachet, s.v. Encombre. But the question of the actual origin of cumbrus, and its relation to the Ger. kummer and its family, is a difficult one, which has been much investigated and discussed: see Grimm, Kluge, Franck, Doornkaat-Koolmann.
The Middle English Dictionary on the other hand does not provide an origin for the noun, only comparing the noun encumbre.
cumber (uncountable)
cumber (plural cumbers)