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

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5-letter words (1 found)

PIPER,

4-letter words (8 found)

PERI,PERP,PIER,PIPE,PREP,REPP,RIPE,RIPP,

3-letter words (10 found)

IRE,PEP,PER,PIE,PIP,PIR,PRE,REI,REP,RIP,

2-letter words (4 found)

ER,PE,PI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from piper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of piper

piper

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

  1. A musician who plays a pipe.
  2. A bagpiper.
  3. A baby pigeon.
  4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
  5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
  6. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
Synonyms
  • (bagpiper): bagpiper
  • (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick
Derived terms
Related terms
  • bagpiper
  • hornpiper
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

piper

  1. Archaic form of pepper.

Anagrams

  • PIREP

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • piperu, chiper

Etymology

From Greek πιπέρι (pipéri), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi).

Noun

piper m

  1. pepper (plant)
  2. pepper (spice)

Derived terms

  • mpipiredz

See also

  • pipercã
  • sari

French

Pronunciation

Verb

piper

  1. to pipe (a bagpipe)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ne pas piper mot
  • sans piper mot

References

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”), via Middle Persian from an Indo-Aryan source, ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”), itself of unknown origin (perhaps a Dravidian or other substrate language of the Indian subcontinent). The declension was changed to a rhotic-stem.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɪ.pɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpiː.per]

Noun

piper n (genitive piperis); third declension

  1. pepper

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • piperātārius
  • piperātōrium
  • piperātum
  • piperātus
  • piperita
  • piperō (“bell pepper”)
    • Italian: peperone
    • Emilian: puvron, pevron, pivron
    • Ligurian: pevión, povrón, peverón, peveión
    • Lombard: peveron, pieron, povron
    • Piedmontese: povron, puvron, pevron, pouron
      • → Vivaro-Alpine: povron, puvron (Valadas)
    • Romagnol: pevaron, piviron, povaron
    • Franco-Provençal: pêvron, povrun, peivron, póuron
    • French: poivron
    • Occitan: pebron (also pebròt, peberòt, cf. Catalan pebrot)

Related terms

  • piperītis

Descendants

References

  • “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “piper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “piper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “piper”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pīpere; equivalent to pipe +‎ -ere (suffix forming agent nouns); compare Old Norse pípari and Old High German pfīfari.

Alternative forms

  • pipare, pipere, pyper, pypere, pypare

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiːpər(ə)/

Noun

piper (plural pipers)

  1. A piper; one who plays a pipe.
Descendants
  • English: piper
  • Scots: piper
  • Yola: peepeare, pipere
References
  • “peper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2022-01-04.

Etymology 2

Noun

piper

  1. alternative form of peper

Norman

Verb

piper

  1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) to peep

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

piper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • pipur, pipor (old spelling or dialectal)
  • pipo (dialectal)

Noun

piper f

  1. indefinite plural of pipe

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.per/

Noun

piper m

  1. alternative form of pipor

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian пипе́р (pipér), from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь, from Latin piper, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).

Pronunciation

Noun

piper m (plural piperi)

  1. pepper (plant)
  2. pepper (spice)

Declension

See also

  • sare

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiːpɛr/

Verb

piper

  1. present indicative of pipa

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar.

Noun

piper c (plural pipers, diminutive piperke)

  1. pepper (spice)

Further reading

  • “piper”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org