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Is recur a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word recur is a Scrabble US word. The word recur is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is recur a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word recur is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

R1E1C3U1R1

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Yes. The word recur is a Words With Friends word. The word recur is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

CURER,RECUR,

4-letter words (5 found)

CRUE,CURE,CURR,ECRU,RUER,

3-letter words (9 found)

CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,ERR,REC,RUC,RUE,URE,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 20 words from recur according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of recur

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Definitions and meaning of recur

recur

Etymology

From Latin recurrō (“run back”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Verb

recur (third-person singular simple present recurs, present participle recurring, simple past and past participle recurred)

  1. (intransitive) To happen again.
  2. To come to the mind again.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 3, Book 13, Chapter 2, p. 9,[4]
      […] he had heard that a Cousin of Sophia was married to a Gentleman of that Name. This, however, in the present Tumult of his Mind, never once recurred to his Memory:
  3. (dated) To speak, write or think about something again; to return or go back (to a subject).
  4. (obsolete) To go back to using or doing something.
  5. (obsolete) To have recourse (to someone or something) for assistance, support etc.; to turn or appeal to (someone or something).
    • 1609, Richard Smith, The Prudentiall Ballance of Religion, Saint-Omer: François Bellet, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 29,[12]
      to shew vs by our first Apostle what account we should make of the resolution of the Sea Apostolick, and […] in all difficulties recur to her
  6. (obsolete) To go to a location again; to return (to a place).
    • 1667, Edward Waterhouse, A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London, London: Richard Thrale et al., p. 133,[15]
      […] in the body natural the amputation and dock of one member forces the bloud and spirits that therein reside when fixed, to recur to the heart, and there to succour it in the absence of that part […]
  7. (intransitive, computing) To recurse.

Synonyms

  • (to happen again): repeat; see also Thesaurus:repeat

Derived terms

  • non-recurring
  • recurrent
  • recurrence

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • curer

Source: wiktionary.org