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

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6-letter words (1 found)

MARRON,

5-letter words (7 found)

ARMOR,MANOR,MARON,MAROR,MORRA,NORMA,ROMAN,

4-letter words (12 found)

MANO,MOAN,MONA,MORA,MORN,NOMA,NORM,ORRA,ROAM,ROAN,ROAR,ROMA,

3-letter words (16 found)

ARM,MAN,MAR,MNA,MOA,MON,MOR,NAM,NOM,NOR,OAR,OMA,ORA,RAM,RAN,ROM,

2-letter words (10 found)

AM,AN,AR,MA,MO,NA,NO,OM,ON,OR,

You can make 46 words from marron according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of marron

marron

Etymology 1

Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

  1. A sweet chestnut. [from 19th c.]
Derived terms
  • marron glacé

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

From Nyunga marran.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

  1. Cherax tenuimanus, a species of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.
Synonyms
  • hairy marron, Margaret River marron

See also

  • gilgie, jilgie
  • yabby, yabbie

Anagrams

  • Morran

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • Marron

Etymology

Borrowed from French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”), from Taíno simaran.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑˈrɔn/
  • Hyphenation: mar‧ron
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

  1. Maroon (a member of ethnic groups in the Americas descended from Africans who escaped slavery and established free communities; (Suriname) a member of a major Afro-Surinamese ethnic group that consists of several tribes and is based mostly in the hinterland; (historical) escaped slave)
    Synonyms: bosneger, boslandcreool

Finnish

Noun

marron

  1. genitive singular of marto

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.ʁɔ̃/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian marrone.

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

  1. horse-chestnut
  2. chestnut
  3. chestnut brown
  4. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
  5. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
  6. (informal) punch (with the fist)
  7. (informal) head
Derived terms

Adjective

marron (invariable)

  1. (France) brown
Usage notes
  • This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun. Compared to brun, marron is slightly depreciative.
  • Like most colors that take their name from animals and plants, the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón; see that entry for more.

Adjective

marron (feminine marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)

  1. (Antilles, Réunion) maroon (that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state))
  2. (Antilles, Réunion) wild (to qualify a wild alternative for a cultivated plant or farm animal)
    Synonym: sauvage
  3. (Réunion) illicit, crooked (of professions)
    magie marronne ― hedge magic
Derived terms
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Noun

marron m (plural marrons, feminine marronne)

  1. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

Further reading

  • “marron” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
  • “marron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org