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Is driver a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word driver is a Scrabble US word. The word driver is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is driver a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word driver is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

D2R1I1V4E1R1

Is driver a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

DRIVER,

5-letter words (9 found)

DIRER,DIVER,DRIER,DRIVE,REIRD,RIDER,RIVED,RIVER,VIRED,

4-letter words (12 found)

DERV,DEVI,DIRE,DIVE,IRED,RIDE,RIVE,VERD,VIDE,VIED,VIER,VIRE,

3-letter words (13 found)

DEI,DEV,DIE,DIV,ERR,IDE,IRE,RED,REI,REV,RID,VID,VIE,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,DI,ED,ER,ID,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 42 words from driver according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of driver

driver

Etymology

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.və(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: drīʹvər, IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪvɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

  1. One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
  2. Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
  3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
    The requirement that every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver is deemed to be satisfied while the vehicle is using an automated driving system which complies with domestic technical regulations, and any applicable international legal instrument, […] and domestic legislation governing operation.
  4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
  5. (aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
  7. (computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
  8. (golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
  9. (nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
  10. A factor contributing to something; a cause.
  11. A mallet.
  12. A tamping iron.
  13. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
  14. A screwdriver.
  15. (audio) A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
  16. (chiefly in the plural) A driving wheel.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
    • → Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
    • → Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)
  • → Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

Translations

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English driver.

Alternative forms

  • driveur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁaj.vœʁ/

Noun

driver m (plural drivers)

  1. (golf) driver

Etymology 2

From English drive +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁaj.ve/

Verb

driver

  1. (golf outside Louisiana, Cajun) to drive
Conjugation

Further reading

  • “driver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • verdir

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Noun

driver m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. driver (in a trotting race; tennis player good at driving)

Noun

driver m (invariable)

  1. driver (golf club; computer module)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driver

  1. present tense of drive

Derived terms

  • (of the noun) pådriver

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English driver.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdɾaj.veʁ/

Noun

driver m or f (plural drivers)

  1. (computing) driver (program acting as interface between an application and hardware)
    Synonym: controlador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:driver.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English driver.

Noun

driver c

  1. (golf) a driver (club)

Declension

See also

  • putter

Verb

driver

  1. present indicative of driva

References

  • driver in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • driver in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • vrider

Source: wiktionary.org