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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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4-letter words (3 found)

GLUE,GULE,LUGE,

3-letter words (7 found)

GEL,GUE,GUL,LEG,LEU,LUG,ULE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,GU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from glue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of glue

glue

English

Etymology

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

Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime).

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.
    Hyponyms: crazy glue, hot glue, marine glue, meat glue, paste, rice glue, school glue, Scotch glue, skin glue, superglue, wheat paste, wood glue
    Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
  2. (figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Esperanto: gluo
  • → Ido: gluo
  • → Irish: gliú
  • → Welsh: gliw

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively.
    Synonyms: adhere, cling, stick, Thesaurus:adhere
  3. (intransitive) To apply glue.

Usage notes

  • The spelling glueing is not universally recognized among dictionaries. According to the Google Ngram Viewer, gluing is about 15x as common as of 2019.

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References

Further reading

  • glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Guel, UGLE, gule, luge

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

glue

  2. alternative form of glew (“glue”)

Etymology 2

Verb

glue

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

Source: wiktionary.org