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Is number a Scrabble word?

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

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Is number a Scrabble UK word?

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

N1U1M3B3E1R1

Is number a Words With Friends word?

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

NUMBER,

5-letter words (4 found)

BRUME,RUMEN,UMBER,UMBRE,

4-letter words (11 found)

BERM,BREN,BURN,MENU,MURE,NEUM,NUMB,RUBE,RUME,RUNE,UNBE,

3-letter words (25 found)

BEN,BRU,BUM,BUN,BUR,EMU,ERM,ERN,MEN,MEU,MUN,NEB,NUB,NUR,REB,REM,REN,RUB,RUE,RUM,RUN,UME,URB,URE,URN,

2-letter words (12 found)

BE,EM,EN,ER,ME,MU,NE,NU,RE,UM,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 54 words from number according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of number

number

Alternative forms

  • nummer (dialectal)
  • numbre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭmʹbər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmbə/
  • (General American) enPR: nŭmʹbər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmbɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: num‧ber

Noun

number (plural numbers)

  1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  2. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
    Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime
  3. (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
  4. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
  5. Quantity.
  6. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
  8. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      Marsha's work number is 555-8986.
  10. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
  11. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
  12. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
  13. (countable, informal) A person.
  14. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
  15. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
  16. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
    the latest number of a magazine
  17. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
  18. An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
Hyponyms
  • See also Thesaurus:number
Derived terms
  • Pages starting with “number”.
Descendants
Translations

Verb

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

  1. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
  2. (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
  3. (transitive, literary or archaic) To count; to determine the quantity of.
  4. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
  5. (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
  6. (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
  7. (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
  8. (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
Translations
See also
  • (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural, singulative
  • Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers
References
  • number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “number”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Etymology 2

From numb + -er.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭm'ə, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmə/
  • (US): enPR: nŭm'ər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmɚ/
  • Hyphenation: num‧ber

Adjective

number

  1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Anagrams

  • numbre, renumb

Estonian

Etymology

From German Nummer. The added -b- is analogous to kamber and klamber.

Noun

number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)

  1. number

Declension

Middle English

Noun

number

  1. Alternative form of nombre

Papiamentu

Etymology

From English number.

An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".

Noun

number

  1. number

Source: wiktionary.org