Doze in Scrabble and Meaning

• Finder
• Unscrambler
• Dictionary

Valid words made from Doze

Jump to...

• 4 letter words
• 3 letter words
• 2 letter words
• 1 letter words

Results

4-letter words (1 found)

3-letter words (4 found)

2-letter words (7 found)

1-letter words (1 found)

You can make 13 words from doze according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of doze

doze odze dzoe zdoe ozde zode doez odez deoz edoz oedz eodz dzeo zdeo dezo edzo zedo ezdo ozed zoed oezd eozd zeod ezod

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word doze. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in doze.

Definitions and meaning of doze

doze

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: does, dos, doughs

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).

Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.

Alternative forms

• dose (archaic)

Verb

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

   I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
   • October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university

     They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.

Synonyms

• (sleep lightly): slumber

Translations

Noun

doze (plural dozes)

1. A light, short sleep or nap.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Derived terms

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

Translations

See also

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

Etymology 2

Clipping of bulldoze.

Verb

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

Etymology 3

Determiner

doze

1. Pronunciation spelling of those.

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• dotze
• doce

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

1. twelve

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze (reintegrationist norm)

1. twelve

Further reading

• “doze” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈdo.d͡zə/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈdu.zə/

Numeral

doze

1. twelve

Derived terms

• dozaine (“dozen”)
  • French: douzaine (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: dosine
    • Dutch: dozijn (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: dozen, dozein, dozeyne
    • English: dozen (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle High German: totzan, totzen
    • German: Tutzet, Dutzet (archaic); Dutzend (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

• French: douze
• Norman: douze
• Walloon: doze

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ozi
• Hyphenation: do‧ze

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze m or f

1. twelve

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of calibre 12 (“12-gauge”).

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)

Etymology 3

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. Obsolete spelling of dose

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

Numeral

doze

1. twelve