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Is dusk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dusk is a Scrabble US word. The word dusk is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is dusk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dusk is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is dusk a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dusk is a Words With Friends word. The word dusk is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

DUSK,

3-letter words (3 found)

SUD,SUK,UDS,

2-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 5 words from dusk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dusk

dusk udsk dsuk sduk usdk sudk duks udks dkus kdus ukds kuds dsku sdku dksu kdsu skdu ksdu uskd sukd uksd kusd skud ksud

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

Definitions and meaning of dusk

dusk

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dʌsk/
  • Rhymes: -ʌsk

Etymology 1

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

Adjective

dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)

  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Noun

dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)

  1. The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
  2. A darkish colour.
  3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness
Synonyms
  • (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "period of time"): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn
Hypernyms
  • (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight
Hyponyms
  • astronomical dusk
  • civil dusk
  • nautical dusk
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)

Etymology 2

From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.

Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
  2. (transitive) To make dusk.
Translations

See also

  • “dusk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • skud

Middle English

Adjective

dusk

  1. Alternative form of dosk

Source: wiktionary.org