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What does glue mean? Is glue a Scrabble word?

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Is glue a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word glue is a Scrabble US word. The word glue is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

G2L1U1E1

Is glue a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word glue is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

G2L1U1E1

Is glue a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word glue is a Words With Friends word. The word glue is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3L2U2E1

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Valid words made from Glue

You can make 14 words from 'glue' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'glue'

GLUE 5GULE 5
LUGE 5 

3 letters words from 'glue'

GEL 4GUE 4
GUL 4LEG 4
LEU 3LUG 4
ULE 3 

2 letters words from 'glue'

EL 2GU 3
UG 3 

All 4 letters words made out of glue

glue lgue gule ugle luge ulge gleu lgeu gelu eglu legu elgu guel ugel geul egul uegl eugl lueg uleg leug elug uelg eulg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word glue. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in glue.

Definitions and meaning of glue

glue

Etymology

From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡluː/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ɡljuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues)

  1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
  2. (figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.
  3. (obsolete) Birdlime.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or glueing, simple past and past participle glued)

  1. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
  2. (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

Synonyms

  • (join with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste
  • (adhere closely): adhere, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

Derived terms

  • screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Further reading

  • glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Guel, UGLE, gule, luge

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu.

Noun

glue

  2. Alternative form of glew (“glue”).

Etymology 2

From Old English glīwian.

Verb

glue

  2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to fasten with glue (an adhesive substance).
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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