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Is fother a Scrabble word?

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

F4O1T1H4E1R1

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

F4O1T1H4E1R1

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6-letter words (1 found)

FOTHER,

5-letter words (7 found)

FETOR,FORTE,FORTH,FROTH,OFTER,OTHER,THROE,

4-letter words (18 found)

FORE,FORT,FRET,FROE,HEFT,HERO,HOER,HORE,HOTE,ORFE,REFT,ROHE,ROTE,TEHR,TERF,THRO,TORE,TREF,

3-letter words (30 found)

EFT,ERF,ETH,FEH,FER,FET,FOE,FOH,FOR,FRO,HER,HET,HOE,HOT,OFT,ORE,ORF,ORT,REF,REH,REO,RET,RHO,ROE,ROT,TEF,THE,THO,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (14 found)

EF,EH,ER,ET,FE,HE,HO,OE,OF,OH,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 71 words from fother according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fother

fother

Etymology

From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English fōdor), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder and foeder. More at food.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɒðə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɑðɚ/

Noun

fother (countable and uncountable, plural fothers)

  1. (historical) A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
    • 1774-75, Act 14 Geo. III in Brand, Newcastle (1789) I, page 652:
      Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre.
  2. (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

Synonyms

  • see cartload, load

Hyponyms

  • see load

Verb

fother (third-person singular simple present fothers, present participle fothering, simple past and past participle fothered)

  1. (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
  2. (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FOTHER”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • forthe, therof

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • foður, fothir, fothyr, futher, fodyr, fooder, foþer, foþere, foðer, voðer, ffoder

Etymology

From Old Norse fóðr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą. Doublet of fodder.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfoːðər/

Noun

fother (plural fothres)

  1. wagonload (that which fits in a wagon)
  2. a wildly inconsistent measure of weight primarily used for lead.
  3. a great quantity, especially a load or of people.

Descendants

  • English: fother
  • Scots: fother

References

  • “fọ̄ther, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-18.

Source: wiktionary.org