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

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

GEYSER,

5-letter words (11 found)

EGERS,EYERS,EYRES,GERES,GEYER,GREES,GRESE,GREYS,GYRES,REGES,SERGE,

4-letter words (18 found)

EERY,EGER,ERES,ERGS,EYER,EYES,EYRE,GEES,GERE,GERS,GREE,GREY,GYRE,REES,REGS,RYES,SEER,SERE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ERE,ERG,ERS,EYE,GEE,GER,GEY,REE,REG,RES,RYE,SEE,SEG,SER,SEY,SYE,YER,YES,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,ES,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 54 words from geyser according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of geyser

geyser

Etymology

From the name of a particular Icelandic geyser which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. From Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic name of the hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”). Doublet of gusher.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡiː.zə/, /ˈɡaɪ.zə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡaɪ.zɚ/, /ˈɡaɪ.sɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ), -iːzə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: guiser, geezer

Noun

geyser (plural geysers)

  1. (planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
  2. (by extension) A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
  3. (British, archaic) An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
  4. (South Africa, South Asia) A domestic water boiler.

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Verb

geyser (third-person singular simple present geysers, present participle geysering, simple past and past participle geysered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.

References

Anagrams

  • Sergey, eygres

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic Geyser, related to the verb geysa (“to gush”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɛ.zɛʁ/, /ʒe.zɛʁ/

Noun

geyser m (plural geysers)

  1. (geology) geyser

Further reading

  • “geyser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Noun

geyser (plural geyser-geyser, first-person possessive geyserku, second-person possessive geysermu, third-person possessive geysernya)

  1. (geology, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of geiser (“geyser”)

Source: wiktionary.org