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Is floor a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word floor is a Scrabble US word. The word floor is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is floor a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word floor is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

FLOOR,

4-letter words (6 found)

FLOR,FOOL,LOOF,LOOR,ROLF,ROOF,

3-letter words (9 found)

FOO,FOR,FRO,LOO,LOR,OOF,OOR,ORF,ROO,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OF,OO,OR,

You can make 20 words from floor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of floor

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Definitions and meaning of floor

floor

Etymology

From Middle English flor, flore, from Old English flōr (floor, pavement, ground, bottom), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (flat surface, floor, plain), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (floor), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat).

Cognate with Scots flure, fluir (floor), Saterland Frisian Floor (floor), West Frisian flier (floor), Dutch vloer (floor), German Low German Floor (entry hall), German Flur (field, floor, entrance hall), Swedish flor (floor of a cow stall), Irish urlár (floor), Scottish Gaelic làr (floor, ground, earth), Welsh llawr (floor, ground), Latin plānus (level, flat).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: flô, IPA(key): /flɔː/
  • (General American) enPR: flôr, IPA(key): /flɔɹ/, [flo̞ɹ]
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: flōr, IPA(key): /flo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /floə/
  • (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA(key): /floʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophone: flaw (in non-rhotic accents)
  • Homophones: flow, floe (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern US))

Noun

floor (plural floors)

  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  2. (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
  3. (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
  4. (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
  6. (architecture) A storey/story of a building.
  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  8. (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
  9. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  10. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  11. (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
  12. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
  13. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
  14. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  15. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
  16. A dance floor.
    • 1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky:
      She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before
    • 1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was):
      Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur
  17. The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
  18. The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
  19. The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.

Synonyms

  • (bottom part of a room): see Thesaurus:floor
  • (right to speak): possession (UK)

Antonyms

  • ceiling

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Verb

floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)

  1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. (informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
    Antonym: sky
  4. (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
  5. (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  6. (informal, transitive) To amaze or greatly surprise.
  7. (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
  8. (mathematics) To set a lower bound.

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References

Further reading

  • Floor (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Floor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Floro

Middle English

Noun

floor

  1. Alternative form of flor

Source: wiktionary.org