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Is pester a Scrabble word?

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

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Is pester a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is pester a Words With Friends word?

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6-letter words (4 found)

PESTER,PETERS,PETRES,PRESET,

5-letter words (23 found)

ESTER,PEERS,PERES,PERSE,PERST,PERTS,PETER,PETRE,PREES,PRESE,PREST,REEST,RESET,SPEER,SPREE,STEEP,STEER,STERE,STREP,TEERS,TERES,TERSE,TREES,

4-letter words (24 found)

ERES,ERST,PEER,PEES,PERE,PERT,PEST,PETS,PREE,REES,REPS,REST,RETE,RETS,SEEP,SEER,SEPT,SERE,SPET,STEP,TEER,TEES,TREE,TRES,

3-letter words (18 found)

ERE,ERS,EST,PEE,PER,PES,PET,PRE,PST,REE,REP,RES,RET,SEE,SER,SET,TEE,TES,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,ER,ES,ET,PE,RE,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 78 words from pester according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pester

pester

Etymology

In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstɚ/, [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Verb

pester (third-person singular simple present pesters, present participle pestering, simple past and past participle pestered)

  1. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
  2. (obsolete, transitive and intransitive) To crowd together thickly.

Synonyms

  • badger
  • bug
  • hound

Derived terms

  • bepester
  • pester power
  • pesterer
  • pestery

Related terms

  • pest

Translations

Noun

pester (plural pesters)

  1. A bother or nuisance.

Anagrams

  • Peters, Pretes, pestre, peters, pre-set, preset, serpet

Breton

Noun

pester

  1. plural of post

Dutch

Etymology

From pesten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛs.tər/
  • Hyphenation: pes‧ter

Noun

pester m (plural pesters, diminutive pestertje n)

  1. A bully (person who bullies or pesters somebody).

Synonyms

  • pestkop

Related terms

  • pesten, pesterij

Anagrams

  • perste, preest, preste, streep

French

Etymology

From peste +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛs.te/

Verb

pester

  1. to rant, curse, fulminate

Conjugation

Further reading

  • “pester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • pertes, prêtes, prêtés

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pester m or f

  1. indefinite plural of pest

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • pestar

Noun

pester m or f

  1. indefinite feminine plural of pest

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьstrъ (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pèːstər/

Adjective

pẹ́stər (comparative pẹ́strejši, superlative nȁjpẹ́strejši)

  1. colourful, variegated

Inflection

Further reading

  • “pester”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Source: wiktionary.org