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Is dreg a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dreg is a Scrabble US word. The word dreg is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

D2R1E1G2

Is dreg a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dreg is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

D2R1E1G2

Is dreg a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dreg is a Words With Friends word. The word dreg is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2R1E1G3

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4-letter words (1 found)

DREG,

3-letter words (6 found)

DEG,ERG,GED,GER,RED,REG,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from dreg according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dreg

dreg rdeg derg edrg redg erdg drge rdge dgre gdre rgde grde degr edgr dger gder egdr gedr regd ergd rged gred egrd gerd

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Definitions and meaning of dreg

dreg

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɹɛɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

dreg (countable and uncountable, plural dregs) (chiefly in the plural)

  1. Sediment in a liquid.
  2. (by extension) The lowest and most worthless part of something; scum.

Quotations

  • 1768:O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a dreg behind! — William Hayley, from 'On the Fear of Death, An Epistle to a Lady, 1768', in Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects 1818.
  • 1910: Fear and trauma may drain to the last dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma. George W. Crile. in an address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910, collected in The Origin and Nature of Emotions

Derived terms

  • tofu-dreg

Translations

References

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.048

Anagrams

  • GERD, derg, regd

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dreg

  1. present of dra

Romanian

Verb

dreg

  1. inflection of drege:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Source: wiktionary.org