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Is cursor a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cursor is a Scrabble US word. The word cursor is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word cursor is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

CRUORS,CURSOR,

5-letter words (4 found)

COURS,CRUOR,CURRS,SCOUR,

4-letter words (11 found)

CORS,COUR,CRUS,CURR,CURS,ORCS,OURS,ROCS,RUCS,SCUR,SOUR,

3-letter words (13 found)

COR,COS,CRU,CUR,ORC,ORS,OUR,OUS,ROC,RUC,SOC,SOU,SUR,

2-letter words (6 found)

OR,OS,OU,SO,UR,US,

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

Definitions and meaning of cursor

cursor

Alternative forms

  • cursour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜ˞sə˞]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːsə/, [ˈkʰɜːsə]
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

Noun

cursor (plural cursors)

  1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
  2. (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
  3. (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
  4. (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
  5. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
    Synonym: iterator pattern

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Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

  1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

See also

  • electronic display
  • GUI
  • pointer

Anagrams

  • Curros

Latin

Etymology

From currō (“run”) +‎ -sor.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkʊrs̠ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkursor]

Noun

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

  1. a runner, racer
  2. a courier, messenger, post
  3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

  • “cursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cursor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cursor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cursōrem.

Pronunciation

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
  2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curseur.

Noun

cursor n (plural cursoare)

  1. cursor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuɾˈsoɾ/ [kuɾˈsoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: cur‧sor

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. (computing) cursor
    Synonym: puntero

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Further reading

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

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