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Is pore a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pore is a Scrabble US word. The word pore is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word pore is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (3 found)

PORE,REPO,ROPE,

3-letter words (8 found)

OPE,ORE,PER,PRE,PRO,REO,REP,ROE,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,OE,OP,OR,PE,PO,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from pore according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pore

pore opre proe rpoe orpe rope poer oper peor epor oepr eopr preo rpeo pero epro repo erpo orep roep oerp eorp reop erop

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Definitions and meaning of pore

pore

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA(key): /pɔɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA(key): /pɔː/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA(key): /po(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /poə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).

Noun

pore (plural pores)

  1. A tiny opening in the skin.
    Synonym: sweat hole
  2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • porous
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.

Verb

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

  1. To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
  2. To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Derived terms
  • pore over
Translations

Anagrams

  • Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope

Cornish

Noun

pore

  1. Hard mutation of bore.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poːrə/, [ˈpʰoːɐ]

Noun

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)

  1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

From por +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈporeˣ/, [ˈpo̞re̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ore
  • Syllabification(key): po‧re

Noun

pore

  1. bubble (gas bubble in water)
    Synonym: kupla
  2. area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
  3. (slang) speed (recreational amphetamine drug)
    Synonyms: piri, amfe, amffe, spiidi, vauhti, pöhinä, virta, vireeni, (standard) amfetamiini

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pore”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Repo, repo, rope

French

Etymology

From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ/
  • Homophones: porc, port

Noun

pore m (plural pores)

  1. pore (small opening in the skin)
  2. (by extension) small opening of any kind

Derived terms

  • poreux
  • ostéoporose

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

  1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

  • porøs

References

  • “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

  1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

  • porøs

References

  • “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore oblique singular, m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)

  1. pore (small opening in skin)

Venetian

Adjective

pore f

  1. feminine plural of poro

Yanomamö

Noun

pore

  1. a type of ghost, apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages

References

  • Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

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