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Is hoover a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hoover is a Scrabble US word. The word hoover is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

H4O1O1V4E1R1

Is hoover a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hoover is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

H4O1O1V4E1R1

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6-letter words (1 found)

HOOVER,

5-letter words (2 found)

HOOVE,HOVER,

4-letter words (8 found)

HERO,HOER,HOOR,HORE,HOVE,OVER,ROHE,ROVE,

3-letter words (16 found)

EVO,HER,HOE,HOO,OHO,OOH,OOR,ORE,REH,REO,REV,RHO,ROE,ROO,VOE,VOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

EH,ER,HE,HO,OE,OH,OO,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from hoover according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hoover

hoover

Alternative forms

  • Hoover

Etymology

Genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhuːvə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhuvɚ/
  • Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: hoo‧ver

Noun

hoover (plural hoovers)

  1. (chiefly British, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Translations

Verb

hoover (third-person singular simple present hoovers, present participle hoovering, simple past and past participle hoovered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
    • 2006, Stella Rimington, Secret Asset, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-180024-6; republished New York, N.Y.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-7982-7, page 210:
      In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed.
  2. (intransitive, British, Ireland) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
  3. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

Synonyms

  • (transitive sense): to vacuum

Derived terms

  • hoover up

Translations

References

  • “hoover”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Source: wiktionary.org