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Is mortar a Scrabble word?

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

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Is mortar a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3O1R1T1A1R1

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Yes. The word mortar is a Words With Friends word. The word mortar is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

MORTAR,

5-letter words (5 found)

AMORT,ARMOR,MAROR,MORAT,MORRA,

4-letter words (16 found)

ATOM,MART,MOAT,MORA,MORT,ORRA,RATO,ROAM,ROAR,ROMA,RORT,ROTA,TARO,TORA,TORR,TRAM,

3-letter words (21 found)

ARM,ART,MAR,MAT,MOA,MOR,MOT,OAR,OAT,OMA,ORA,ORT,RAM,RAT,ROM,ROT,TAM,TAO,TAR,TOM,TOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

AM,AR,AT,MA,MO,OM,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 52 words from mortar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mortar

mortar

Alternative forms

  • morter (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

  1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
    Synonyms: mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar
  3. (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
  4. (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
  5. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: mortar

Translations

Verb

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

  1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
  2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
  3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
  4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

Related terms

  • bricks and mortar

See also

  • gun
  • howitzer

Anagrams

  • marrot

Ido

Etymology

Derived from morto +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔrˈtar/

Verb

mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)

  1. (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
  2. (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
  3. (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

Conjugation

Indonesian

Etymology

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɔr.tar]
  • Hyphenation: mor‧tar

Noun

mortar (first-person possessive mortarku, second-person possessive mortarmu, third-person possessive mortarnya)

  1. mortar,
    1. a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
    2. a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
      Synonym: lumpang

Further reading

  • “mortar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

mortar

  1. Alternative form of morter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mortar m

  1. indefinite plural of mort

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /morˈtar/

Noun

mortar n (uncountable)

  1. mortar (construction material)

Declension

Related terms

  • mortier
  • mojar

Further reading

  • mortar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Source: wiktionary.org