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Is narrow a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word narrow is a Scrabble US word. The word narrow is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is narrow a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word narrow is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

NARROW,

5-letter words (2 found)

ARROW,ROWAN,

4-letter words (8 found)

ANOW,AROW,ORRA,RAWN,ROAN,ROAR,WARN,WORN,

3-letter words (13 found)

AWN,NAW,NOR,NOW,OAR,ORA,OWN,RAN,RAW,ROW,WAN,WAR,WON,

2-letter words (9 found)

AN,AR,AW,NA,NO,ON,OR,OW,WO,

You can make 33 words from narrow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of narrow

narrow

Alternative forms

  • narrowe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnæɹəʊ/
  • (General American)
    • IPA(key): /ˈnæɹoʊ/
    • (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
    • IPA(key): /ˈnɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
    • (Mary–marry–merry merger)
  • Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
  • Hyphenation: nar‧row

Etymology 1

From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Nehrung (“spit, narrow peninsula”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic narrow- (“njörva-”, in compounds).

Adjective

narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)

  1. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  3. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  4. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
  5. Having a small margin or degree.
  6. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
  7. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  8. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  9. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Antonyms
  • wide
  • broad
Derived terms
Related terms
  • narrowly
  • narrowness
Translations

Noun

narrow (plural narrows)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

Etymology 2

From Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.

Verb

narrow (third-person singular simple present narrows, present participle narrowing, simple past and past participle narrowed)

  1. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
  2. (intransitive) To get narrower.
  3. (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
  4. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  5. (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
    Antonym: widen
Synonyms
  • taper
Derived terms
  • narrowable
  • narrow down
  • renarrow
Translations

Source: wiktionary.org