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Is fallow a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fallow is a Scrabble US word. The word fallow is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is fallow a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fallow is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word fallow is a Words With Friends word. The word fallow is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

FALLOW,

5-letter words (1 found)

ALLOW,

4-letter words (11 found)

ALOW,AWOL,FALL,FLAW,FLOW,FOAL,FOWL,LOAF,OLLA,WALL,WOLF,

3-letter words (9 found)

ALF,ALL,AWL,FAW,LAW,LOW,OAF,OWL,WOF,

2-letter words (8 found)

AL,AW,FA,LA,LO,OF,OW,WO,

You can make 30 words from fallow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fallow

fallow

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfæləʊ/
  • (US) enPR: fălʹō, IPA(key): /ˈfæloʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æləʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).

Noun

fallow (countable and uncountable, plural fallows)

  1. (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
  3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
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Adjective

fallow (comparative more fallow, superlative most fallow)

  1. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
  3. (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
Synonyms
  • (figuratively inactive): abeyant, dormant, latent; see also Thesaurus:inactive
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Etymology 2

From Middle English falowen, falwen, from Old English fealgian (“to fallow; break up land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgōn (“to fallow”). Cognate with Dutch valgen (“to plow lightly; fallow”), German Low German falgen (“to till; dig a hole”).

Verb

fallow (third-person singular simple present fallows, present participle fallowing, simple past and past participle fallowed)

  1. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl), from Proto-Indo-European *polwos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas (“sallow, wan”), Russian половый (polovyj, “wan, light yellow”), Serbo-Croatian plâv (“blond, blue”), Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”).

Adjective

fallow (comparative more fallow, superlative most fallow)

  2. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
Related terms
  • fallow deer
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References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “fallow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Source: wiktionary.org