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Is gourde a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gourde is a Scrabble US word. The word gourde is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is gourde a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gourde is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (4 found)

DROGUE,GOURDE,ROGUED,ROUGED,

5-letter words (9 found)

ERUGO,GORED,GOURD,GRUED,ORGUE,ROGUE,ROUGE,UREDO,URGED,

4-letter words (26 found)

DEGU,DERO,DOER,DOGE,DORE,DOUR,DREG,DRUG,DURE,DURO,ERGO,EURO,GOER,GORE,GRUE,GUDE,OGRE,REDO,REGO,RODE,ROED,ROUE,RUDE,RUED,URDE,URGE,

3-letter words (34 found)

DEG,DOE,DOG,DOR,DUE,DUG,DUO,EGO,ERG,GED,GEO,GER,GOD,GOE,GOR,GUE,GUR,ODE,ORD,ORE,ORG,OUD,OUR,RED,REG,REO,ROD,ROE,RUD,RUE,RUG,UDO,URD,URE,

2-letter words (13 found)

DE,DO,ED,ER,GO,GU,OD,OE,OR,OU,RE,UG,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 87 words from gourde according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gourde

gourde

Etymology

French, originally meaning “heavy, clumsy”. Cognate with Haitian Creole goud.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡʊəd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡʊɹd/
  • enPR: go͝ord
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d

Noun

gourde (plural gourdes)

  1. The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.

Anagrams

  • drogue, drouge, rogued, rouged

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuʁd/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.

Noun

gourde f (plural gourdes)

  1. gourd
  2. (by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)

Etymology 2

Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).

Noun

gourde f (plural gourdes)

  1. (colloquial) clot, dope; idiot
  2. gourde (currency of Haiti)

Adjective

gourde

  1. feminine singular of gourd

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • gorde, goord, gowrde, gurd

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gourde, gurde, from Latin cucurbita.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡuːrd(ə)/

Noun

gourde (plural gourdes)

  1. A plant of the family Cucurbitaceae; a gourd or similar plant.
  2. The fruit of such a plant.

Descendants

  • English: gourd

References

  • “gǒurd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Adjective

gourde

  1. feminine singular of gourd (“numb”)

Source: wiktionary.org