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Is probe a Scrabble word?

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

PROBE,REBOP,

4-letter words (7 found)

BOEP,BORE,PORE,PROB,REPO,ROBE,ROPE,

3-letter words (15 found)

BOP,BOR,BRO,OBE,OPE,ORB,ORE,PER,PRE,PRO,REB,REO,REP,ROB,ROE,

2-letter words (10 found)

BE,BO,ER,OB,OE,OP,OR,PE,PO,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from probe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of probe

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Definitions and meaning of probe

probe

Etymology

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.

For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəʊb/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊb/
  • Rhymes: -əʊb

Noun

probe (plural probes)

  1. (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. [from 15th c.]
    1. (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
  2. (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. [from 17th c.]
  3. An act of probing; a prod, a poke. [from 19th c.]
  4. (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry. [from 20th c.]
  5. (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. [from 20th c.]
  6. (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. [from 20th c.]
  7. (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. [from 20th c.]
  8. (go) a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy
  9. (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure

Synonyms

  • (game of go) yosu-miru

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

probe (third-person singular simple present probes, present participle probing, simple past and past participle probed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To explore, investigate, or question
  2. (transitive) To insert a probe into.

Related terms

  • probable
  • probesome
  • prove
  • proof
  • probity
  • probation

Translations

Further reading

  • “probe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “probe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Pober, rebop

Asturian

Adjective

probe (epicene, plural probes)

  1. poor

Derived terms

  • probitú

Galician

Verb

probe

  1. inflection of probar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

probe

  1. inflection of proben:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.be/
  • Rhymes: -ɔbe
  • Hyphenation: prò‧be

Adjective

probe

  1. feminine plural of probo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *proβwēd.

Adverb

probē (comparative probius, superlative probissimē)

  1. well, rightly, properly, correctly, fitly, opportunely, excellently

Adjective

probe

  1. vocative masculine singular of probus

References

  • “probe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “probe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • probe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Metathesized from pobre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾobe/ [ˈpɾo.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -obe
  • Syllabification: pro‧be

Adjective

probe m or f (masculine and feminine plural probes)

  1. (obsolete outside New Mexico) Alternative form of pobre

Source: wiktionary.org