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Is decorum a Scrabble word?

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

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Is decorum a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is decorum a Words With Friends word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

DECORUM,

6-letter words (4 found)

COURED,CROMED,DOUCER,REMOUD,

5-letter words (22 found)

CODER,COMER,CORED,COUDE,COURD,COURE,CREDO,CROME,CRUDE,CRUDO,CURED,DECOR,DEMUR,DOUCE,DROME,DUROC,MODER,MUCOR,MUCRO,MURED,ODEUM,UREDO,

4-letter words (51 found)

CERO,CODE,COED,COME,CORD,CORE,CORM,COUR,CRED,CREM,CRUD,CRUE,CUED,CURD,CURE,DECO,DEMO,DERM,DERO,DOCU,DOER,DOME,DORE,DORM,DOUC,DOUM,DOUR,DRUM,DUCE,DURE,DURO,ECOD,ECRU,EURO,MEOU,MERC,MODE,MOER,MORE,MOUE,MURE,OMER,REDO,RODE,ROED,ROUE,ROUM,RUDE,RUED,RUME,URDE,

3-letter words (49 found)

COD,COR,CRU,CUD,CUE,CUM,CUR,DOC,DOE,DOM,DOR,DUE,DUM,DUO,ECO,ECU,EMO,EMU,ERM,MED,MEU,MOC,MOD,MOE,MOR,MOU,MUD,ODE,ORC,ORD,ORE,OUD,OUR,REC,RED,REM,REO,ROC,ROD,ROE,ROM,RUC,RUD,RUE,RUM,UDO,UME,URD,URE,

2-letter words (16 found)

DE,DO,ED,EM,ER,ME,MO,MU,OD,OE,OM,OR,OU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 144 words from decorum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of decorum

decorum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, neuter form of decōrus (“proper, decent”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈkɔːɹəm/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
  • Hyphenation: de‧co‧rum

Noun

decorum (countable and uncountable, plural decora or decorums)

  1. (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.
    Synonyms: decency, courtesy, propriety, etiquette
    • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch (pseudonym; Raphael Simon), This Isn't What It Looks Like, ch. 4
      It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
  2. (countable) A convention of social behavior.

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Translations

Anagrams

  • Cudmore

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deˈkoː.rum/, [d̪ɛˈkoːrʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈko.rum/, [d̪eˈkɔːrum]

Etymology 1

Noun use of the neuter form of decōrus (“becoming, fitting, proper”).

Noun

decōrum n (genitive decōrī); second declension

  1. seemliness, propriety
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

  • “decorum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • decorum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

decōrum

  1. inflection of decōrus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

decōrum

  1. genitive plural of decor

Polish

Alternative forms

  • dekorum

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin decōrum. Doublet of dekoracja and dekorować.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛˈkɔ.rum/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrum
  • Syllabification: de‧co‧rum

Noun

decorum n

  1. (literature) decorum (principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory concerning the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject)
  2. (anthropology) decorum (appropriate social behavior; propriety)

Declension

Further reading

  • decorum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org