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Is door a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word door is a Scrabble US word. The word door is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word door is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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4-letter words (4 found)

DOOR,ODOR,ORDO,ROOD,

3-letter words (6 found)

DOO,DOR,OOR,ORD,ROD,ROO,

2-letter words (4 found)

DO,OD,OO,OR,

You can make 14 words from door according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of door

door

English

Alternative forms

  • doore, durre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /dɔː(ɹ)/
  • (Standard Southern British) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /doː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA(key): /doɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /doə/
  • (non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /doʊ/
  • (Yorkshire) IPA(key): /dʊə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophone: d'or
  • Homophone: daw (non-rhotic)
  • Homophone: dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)
  • Homophone: dough (dough–door merger)

Noun

door (plural doors)

  1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
  2. (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.
  3. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  4. (immigration) An entry point.
  5. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
  6. (figurative) A possibility.
    to leave the door open
    all doors are open to somebody
  7. (figurative) A barrier.
  8. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
  9. The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
    The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.

Hyponyms

  • front door
  • plantation door
  • sliding door

Meronyms

  • handle
  • latch
  • lock

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Belizean Creole: doa
  • Sranan Tongo: doro

Translations

See also

  • gate

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

  2. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Rood, ordo, oord, rood, O'Dor, odor

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doːr/
  • Hyphenation: door
  • Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dōre, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

door

  1. through
  2. across, around (within a certain space)
  3. because of, due to
    Synonyms: vanwege, ten gevolge van
  4. by, by means of
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: deur
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: doro
  • Jersey Dutch: dœr
  • Negerhollands: door
  • Petjo: door
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: door
  • Sranan Tongo: doro
    • Aukan: doo
    • Kwinti: doo, doro
    • Saramaccan: dóu
    • → Kari'na: dorome
  • → Caribbean Javanese: dhur, dhur-dhuran
  • → Papiamentu: dor

Adverb

door

  1. through
  2. forward, on
  3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
  4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
  5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: deur

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôre, from Old Dutch *dōro, Proto-West Germanic *dauʀō, from Proto-Germanic *dauzô.

Noun

door m (plural doren)

  1. (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
    • 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
    Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot
Related terms
  • dwaas

Anagrams

  • oord, rood

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dolōrem m (“pain”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /do.ˈoɾ/

Noun

door f (plural doores)

  1. pain
    • 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:

Related terms

  • doorida, doorido
  • doorosa

Descendants

  • Galician: dor f
  • Portuguese: dor f (see there for further descendants)

Scots

Alternative forms

  • dour

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [duːr]

Noun

door (plural doors)

  1. door

Further reading

  • “door”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Somali

Verb

door

  1. to choose

Source: wiktionary.org