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Is recover a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word recover is a Scrabble US word. The word recover is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

R1E1C3O1V4E1R1

Is recover a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word recover is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

R1E1C3O1V4E1R1

Is recover a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word recover is a Words With Friends word. The word recover is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1C4O1V5E1R1

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7-letter words (2 found)

COVERER,RECOVER,

6-letter words (1 found)

CORVEE,

5-letter words (4 found)

CORER,COVER,CRORE,ROVER,

4-letter words (12 found)

CERE,CERO,CORE,COVE,CREE,EREV,EVER,EVOE,OVER,RORE,ROVE,VEER,

3-letter words (18 found)

CEE,COR,ECO,ERE,ERR,EVE,EVO,ORC,ORE,REC,REE,REO,REV,ROC,ROE,VEE,VOE,VOR,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 43 words from recover according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of recover

recover

Alternative forms

  • recovre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English recoveren, rekeveren, from Anglo-Norman recoverer and Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre. Doublet of recuperate and recoup.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkʌvə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/, /ɹəˈkʌvɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)

Verb

recover (third-person singular simple present recovers, present participle recovering, simple past and past participle recovered)

  1. (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:recover.
  2. (transitive) to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
  3. (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
  4. (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
  5. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
  7. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
  8. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
    • 21 May, 1665, Abraham Cowley, letter to Dr. Thomas Sprat
      I do hope to recover my late hurt.
  9. (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
  10. (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
  11. (transitive, archaic, without "from") to recover from
Derived terms
  • recover one's senses
Related terms
  • recovery
Translations

Noun

recover (plural recovers)

  1. (obsolete) Recovery. [14th–17th c.]
  2. (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
  3. (dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ cover.

Alternative forms

  • re-cover

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈkʌvə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹiˈkʌvɚ/

Verb

recover (third-person singular simple present recovers, present participle recovering, simple past and past participle recovered)

  1. To cover again.
  2. (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

Anagrams

  • coverer, recovre

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman recovre.

Noun

recover

  1. Alternative form of recovere

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman recoverer.

Verb

recover

  1. Alternative form of recoveren

Source: wiktionary.org