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Is foo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word foo is a Scrabble US word. The word foo is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is foo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word foo is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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3-letter words (2 found)

FOO,OOF,

2-letter words (2 found)

OF,OO,

You can make 4 words from foo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of foo

foo ofo foo ofo oof oof

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Definitions and meaning of foo

foo

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophone: -fu

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ().

Noun

foo (plural foos)

  1. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.

Etymology 2

From Chinese (, fortunate; prosperity, good luck), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, Jupiter) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.

Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

Noun

foo (uncountable)

  1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
  2. (fandom slang) Alternative letter-case form of Foo (placeholder god)
Derived terms
  • foobar
Related terms
  • FUBAR

Etymology 3

A minced form of fuck.

Interjection

foo

  1. Expression of disappointment or disgust.
Synonyms
  • (expression of disgust): darn, drat

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

  • foo'

Noun

foo (plural foos)

  1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of fool.

References

  • rfc:3092, Etymology of "Foo", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

See also

Anagrams

  • oof

Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.

Noun

foo (plural foos)

  1. Alternative form of fo

Etymology 2

From Old English , variant of fāh.

Adjective

foo

  1. Alternative form of fo

Adverb

foo

  1. Alternative form of fo

Murui Huitoto

Alternative forms

  • fo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɸɔː]
  • Hyphenation: foo

Adverb

foo

  1. in, inside

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 91
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 145

Tetum

Verb

foo

  1. to stink

Source: wiktionary.org