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

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Is glamour a Scrabble UK word?

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

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7-letter words (1 found)

GLAMOUR,

6-letter words (3 found)

GLAMOR,MORULA,RUGOLA,

5-letter words (25 found)

ALGOR,ALGUM,ALMUG,AMOUR,ARGOL,GARUM,GLAUM,GLAUR,GLOAM,GORAL,GOURA,GROMA,GULAR,LARGO,LARUM,LOUMA,MOGUL,MOLAR,MORAL,MULGA,MURAL,ROLAG,ROMAL,RUGAL,RUMAL,

4-letter words (40 found)

AGLU,AGRO,ALUM,ARUM,GAOL,GAUM,GAUR,GLAM,GLOM,GLUM,GOAL,GORA,GORM,GRAM,GRUM,GUAR,GULA,GURL,LOAM,LOMA,LOUR,LUMA,MARG,MARL,MAUL,MOLA,MORA,MURA,MURL,OGAM,ORAL,OUMA,RAGU,ROAM,ROMA,ROUL,ROUM,RUGA,UMRA,URAO,

3-letter words (42 found)

AGO,ALU,AMU,ARM,GAL,GAM,GAR,GAU,GOA,GOR,GUL,GUM,GUR,LAG,LAM,LAR,LOG,LOR,LOU,LUG,LUM,LUR,MAG,MAL,MAR,MOA,MOG,MOL,MOR,MOU,MUG,OAR,OLM,OMA,ORA,ORG,OUR,RAG,RAM,ROM,RUG,RUM,

2-letter words (17 found)

AG,AL,AM,AR,GO,GU,LA,LO,MA,MO,MU,OM,OR,OU,UG,UM,UR,

You can make 128 words from glamour according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of glamour

glamour

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)

  1. (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
  2. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
    glamour magazines; a glamour model
  3. (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
    The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
  4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
  5. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
  6. (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.

Alternative forms

  • glamor (US); however, the -our spelling is the more common spelling, even in the US

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)

  1. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.

References

  • “Glámr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

Danish

Etymology

From English glamour.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlamuːr/, [ɡ̊laˈmuːɐ̯] or IPA(key): /ɡlamɔr/, [ˈɡ̊lamɒ]

Noun

glamour c (singular definite glamouren, not used in plural form)

  1. glamour

Derived terms

  • glamourisere
  • glamourøs

Finnish

Etymology

From French glamour.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɑmour/, [ˈɡlɑ̝mo̞ur]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmour
  • Syllabification(key): gla‧mo‧ur

Noun

glamour

  1. glamour (charm)

Declension

Further reading

  • “glamour”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

glamour m (uncountable)

  1. glamour

Adjective

glamour (invariable)

  1. glamorous

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English glamour.

Noun

glamour m (definite singular glamouren)

  1. glamour

Related terms

  • glamorøs

References

  • “glamour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English glamour.

Noun

glamour m (definite singular glamouren)

  1. glamour

Related terms

  • glamorøs

References

  • “glamour” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English glamour.

Pronunciation

Noun

glamour m (uncountable)

  1. glamour
    Synonyms: charme, encanto

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English glamour.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlaˈmuɾ/ [ɡlaˈmuɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾ

Noun

glamour m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of glamur

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “glamour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

glamour c (definite singular glamouren) (uncountable)

  1. glamour

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