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Is peruse a Scrabble word?

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

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Is peruse a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word peruse is a Words With Friends word. The word peruse is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (4 found)

PERSUE,PERUSE,PUREES,RUPEES,

5-letter words (17 found)

PEERS,PERES,PERSE,PREES,PRESE,PUERS,PUREE,PURES,PURSE,REUSE,RUPEE,SPEER,SPREE,SPRUE,SPUER,SUPER,UPSEE,

4-letter words (23 found)

ERES,PEER,PEES,PERE,PREE,PUER,PURE,PURS,REES,REPS,RUES,RUSE,SEEP,SEER,SERE,SPUE,SPUR,SUER,SUPE,SURE,URES,URPS,USER,

3-letter words (21 found)

ERE,ERS,PEE,PER,PES,PRE,PUR,PUS,REE,REP,RES,RUE,SEE,SER,SUE,SUP,SUR,UPS,URE,URP,USE,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,ER,ES,PE,RE,UP,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 74 words from peruse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of peruse

peruse

Etymology

From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- +‎ use.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /pəˈɹuːz/
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

peruse (third-person singular simple present peruses, present participle perusing, simple past and past participle perused)

  1. (transitive) To examine or consider with care.
  3. (transitive) To read completely.
  4. (transitive, informal) To look over casually; to skim.
  5. (intransitive, regional) To go from place to place; to wander.

Usage notes

  • The sense of "skimming" is proscribed by some authorities on usage, including the Oxford American Dictionary. The shift, however, is not dissimilar to that found in scan, and thus, interestingly, peruse and scan are a synonym pair in which each is a contranym meaning either "to read carefully" or "to read hastily". To avoid ambiguity—and reader annoyance—careful writers may prefer skim when skimming is meant or scrutinize when care is meant. The Oxford English Dictionary further notes that the word peruse was used as a general synonym for read as far back as the 16th century.

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Noun

peruse (plural peruses)

  1. An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.

Translations

Anagrams

  • persue, purees, purées, rupees

Latin

Participle

peruse

  1. vocative masculine singular of perusus

Source: wiktionary.org