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Is deluge a Scrabble word?

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

D2E1L1U1G2E1

Is deluge a Scrabble UK word?

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

D2E1L1U1G2E1

Is deluge a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word deluge is a Words With Friends word. The word deluge is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2E1L2U2G3E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

DELUGE,

5-letter words (6 found)

ELUDE,GLEDE,GLEED,GLUED,LEDGE,LUGED,

4-letter words (18 found)

DEGU,DELE,DUEL,DULE,EDGE,EUGE,GEED,GELD,GLED,GLEE,GLUE,GUDE,GULE,LEDE,LEED,LEUD,LUDE,LUGE,

3-letter words (19 found)

DEE,DEG,DEL,DUE,DUG,EEL,ELD,GED,GEE,GEL,GUE,GUL,LED,LEE,LEG,LEU,LUD,LUG,ULE,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,GU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 51 words from deluge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of deluge

deluge

Etymology

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛl.juːdʒ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɛl.jud͡ʒ/, /ˈdɛ.lud͡ʒ/, /ˈdi.lud͡ʒ/, /dəˈlud͡ʒ/

Noun

deluge (plural deluges)

  1. A great flood or rain.
  2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
  3. (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
    deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
    • 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
      In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

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Verb

deluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)

  1. (transitive) To flood with water.
  2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Translations

References

  • 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Fire_sprinkler_system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “deluge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See also

  • inundate

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • diluge

Etymology

From Old French deluge, from Latin dīluvium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛːliu̯dʒ(ə)/

Noun

deluge (Late Middle English)

  1. A deluge; a massive flooding or raining.
  2. (rare, figurative) Any cataclysmic or catastrophic event.

Descendants

  • English: deluge

References

  • “dēlūǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Old French

Etymology

Very early borrowing of Latin dīluvium, explaining the palatalization of -V-, and the unexpected vowel outcomes.

Noun

deluge oblique singular, m (oblique plural deluges, nominative singular deluges, nominative plural deluge)

  1. large flood

Descendants

  • French: déluge
  • → Middle English: deluge
    • English: deluge

Source: wiktionary.org