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Is dune a Scrabble word?

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

D2U1N1E1

Is dune a Scrabble UK word?

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

D2U1N1E1

Is dune a Words With Friends word?

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

D2U2N2E1

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4-letter words (3 found)

DUNE,NUDE,UNDE,

3-letter words (5 found)

DEN,DUE,DUN,END,NED,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,ED,EN,NE,NU,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from dune according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dune

dune

English

Etymology

Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, probably from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /djuːn/, /dʒuːn/
    • Homophone: June (with /dʒ/)
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /dun/, (sometimes) /djun/
  • (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /dɪu̯n/
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dune (plural dunes)

  1. (geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.

Synonyms

  • sand dune, sand-dune

Antonyms

  • dyke, dike

Derived terms

Related terms

  • duned

Translations

Anagrams

  • nude, undé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dune, from Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), from Old Dutch dūn, dūno, from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā (“hill”), of uncertain origin. More at Proto-West Germanic *dūnā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dyn/
  • Rhymes: -yn

Noun

dune f (plural dunes)

  1. dune

Descendants

  • → Catalan: duna
  • → Portuguese: duna

Further reading

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

Friulian

Noun

dune f (plural dunis)

  1. dune

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: dù‧ne

Noun

dune f pl

  1. plural of duna

Anagrams

  • nude

Middle English

Noun

dune

  1. (Southern, West Midlands) alternative form of dyne

Old English

Noun

dūne

  1. inflection of dūn:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dune (Cyrillic spelling дуне)

  1. third-person singular present of dunuti

Source: wiktionary.org