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Is lumber a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lumber is a Scrabble US word. The word lumber is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is lumber a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lumber is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

L1U1M3B3E1R1

Is lumber a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word lumber is a Words With Friends word. The word lumber is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (3 found)

LUMBER,RUMBLE,UMBREL,

5-letter words (11 found)

BLUER,BLUME,BRULE,BRUME,LEMUR,RUBEL,RUBLE,UMBEL,UMBER,UMBLE,UMBRE,

4-letter words (13 found)

BERM,BLUE,BLUR,BURL,LUBE,LURE,MERL,MULE,MURE,MURL,RUBE,RULE,RUME,

3-letter words (21 found)

BEL,BRU,BUM,BUR,ELM,EMU,ERM,LEU,LUM,LUR,MEL,MEU,REB,REM,RUB,RUE,RUM,ULE,UME,URB,URE,

2-letter words (9 found)

BE,EL,EM,ER,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 58 words from lumber according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lumber

lumber

Etymology

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lŭmʹbə IPA(key): /ˈlʌm.bə/
  • (General American) enPR: lŭmʹbər IPA(key): /ˈlʌm.bɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)

Noun

lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers)

  1. (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]
    • 4 December 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address
      The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;
  2. (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. [from 16th c.]
    • 1783, William Cowper, letter, 10 November:
      We made all haste down stairs, and soon threw open the street door, for the reception of as much lumber, of all sorts, as our house would hold, brought into it by several who thought it necessary to move their furniture.
  3. (figurative) Useless or cumbrous material. [from 17th c.]
  4. (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [17th–18th c.]
    • a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
      They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
  5. (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
  6. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

Synonyms

  • timber
  • wood

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Verb

lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

  1. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
    • 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
  2. (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
  3. To heap together in disorder.
  4. To fill or encumber with lumber.
  5. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To pawn (goods).

Related terms

  • lumbering
  • lumberingness

Translations

Anagrams

  • Blumer, Bulmer, Rumble, rumble, umbrel

Source: wiktionary.org