How many points in Scrabble is labour worth? labour how many points in Words With Friends? What does labour mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is labour a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word labour is a Scrabble US word. The word labour is worth 8 points in Scrabble:
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Is labour a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word labour is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:
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Is labour a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word labour is a Words With Friends word. The word labour is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 56 words from labour according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).
labour (countable and uncountable, plural labours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)
Like many others ending in -our/-or, this word is spelled labour in the UK and labor in the U.S. As such, labor is the more common spelling of the unit. In Canada, labour is preferred, but labor is not unknown. In Australia, labour is the standard spelling, but the Australian Labour Party, founded 1908, "modernised" its spelling to Australian Labor Party in 1912 at the suggestion of American-born King O'Malley, who was a prominent leader in the ALP.
labour (third-person singular simple present labours, present participle labouring, simple past and past participle laboured) (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)
labour
Deverbal from labourer. See also labeur.
labour m (plural labours)
labour oblique singular, m (oblique plural labours, nominative singular labours, nominative plural labour)