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Is gather a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gather is a Scrabble US word. The word gather is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is gather a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gather is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is gather a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

GATHER,

5-letter words (13 found)

EARTH,GARTH,GATER,GERAH,GRATE,GREAT,HATER,HEART,RATHE,RETAG,TARGE,TERGA,THRAE,

4-letter words (31 found)

AGER,AREG,ARET,ARGH,EATH,GARE,GART,GATE,GATH,GEAR,GEAT,GERT,GETA,GHAT,GRAT,HAET,HARE,HART,HATE,HEAR,HEAT,RAGE,RATE,RATH,RHEA,TAHR,TARE,TEAR,TEHR,THAE,THAR,

3-letter words (32 found)

AGE,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERG,ETA,ETH,GAE,GAR,GAT,GER,GET,HAE,HAG,HAT,HER,HET,RAG,RAH,RAT,REG,REH,RET,TAE,TAG,TAR,TEA,TEG,THE,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AG,AH,AR,AT,EA,EH,ER,ET,HA,HE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 92 words from gather according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gather

gather

Alternative forms

  • gether (obsolete or regional)

Etymology

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡæðə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡæðɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)

Verb

gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)

  1. To collect; normally separate things.
    1. Especially, to harvest food.
    2. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
    3. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
    4. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
  2. To bring parts of a whole closer.
    1. (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
    2. (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
    3. (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
    4. (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
  3. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
  4. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
  5. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
  6. To gain; to win.

Synonyms

  • (to bring together): aggroup, togetherize; see also Thesaurus:round up
    (—to accumulate over time): accrue, add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
    (—to congregate): assemble, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

gather (plural gathers)

  1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  2. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  3. (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather#verb.
  4. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
  5. A gathering.

Derived terms

  • gathering iron

Translations

Anagrams

  • Gareth, rageth

Source: wiktionary.org