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Is gander a Scrabble word?

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

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Is gander a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2A1N1D2E1R1

Is gander a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (5 found)

DANGER,GANDER,GARDEN,GRANDE,RANGED,

5-letter words (12 found)

ANGER,DEARN,DENAR,GRADE,GRAND,RADGE,RAGDE,RAGED,RANGE,REDAN,REGNA,RENGA,

4-letter words (40 found)

AGED,AGEN,AGER,ARED,AREG,DANG,DARE,DARG,DARN,DEAN,DEAR,DERN,DRAG,DREG,EARD,EARN,EGAD,GADE,GAED,GAEN,GANE,GARE,GEAN,GEAR,GENA,GNAR,GRAD,GRAN,GREN,NARD,NARE,NEAR,NERD,RADE,RAGE,RAND,RANG,READ,REAN,REND,

3-letter words (34 found)

AGE,AND,ANE,ARD,ARE,DAE,DAG,DAN,DEG,DEN,EAN,EAR,END,ENG,ERA,ERG,ERN,GAD,GAE,GAN,GAR,GED,GEN,GER,NAE,NAG,NED,NEG,RAD,RAG,RAN,RED,REG,REN,

2-letter words (14 found)

AD,AE,AG,AN,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 106 words from gander according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gander

gander

Etymology

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. How did senses 3 and 4 develop?

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡæn.də(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

gander (plural ganders)

  1. A male goose.
  2. A fool, simpleton.
  3. (informal) A glance, look.
  4. (US) A man living apart from his wife.

Synonyms

  • (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Derived terms

  • ganderism
  • gander month
  • gander party
  • Michigander
  • take a gander
  • what's good for the goose is good for the gander
  • what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Translations

Verb

gander (third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)

  1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

Anagrams

  • Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Dutch

Etymology

Most likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans (“goose”) in an analogous way as kater (“male cat”) from kat (“(female) cat”) and doffer (“male dove”) from duif (“(female) dove”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)

  1. gander, male goose

Synonyms

  • (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans

Anagrams

  • dragen

Source: wiktionary.org