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You can make 8 words from roe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of roe

roe ore reo ero oer eor

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word roe. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in roe.

Definitions and meaning of roe

roe

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
• (US) enPR: rō, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: row (in some senses only), Roe, Rowe, rho

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).

Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulaĩ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).

Alternative forms

• roan, rone, roun, rown, rawn, round (dialectal)
• roughne, roughnes (obsolete)

Noun

roe (countable and uncountable, plural roes)

1. The eggs of fish.
2. The sperm of certain fish.
3. The ovaries of certain crustaceans.

Quotations

Synonyms

• (sperm): milt

Derived terms

• hard roe
• soft roe
• white roe

Translations

See also

• caviar
• egg

Etymology 2

From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”).

See also Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh; also Irish riabh (“tripe, streak”), Latvian ràibs (“spotted”), Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).

Noun

roe (plural roe or roes)

1. Short for roe deer.
2. A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

Derived terms

• roebuck

Translations

References

Anagrams

• EOR, ORE, Ore, Ore., REO, o'er, ore, öre, øre

Dutch

Etymology

Shortened form of roede, with regular loss of -de. From Proto-Germanic *rōdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru/
• Hyphenation: roe
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

roe f or m (plural roes, diminutive roetje n)

1. Alternative form of roede
2. bundle of twigs, especially in Sinterklaas folklore

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rooja. Cognate to Finnish ruoja and Votic roojõ (“dirt, mud, dirtiness, dirty”).

Noun

roe (genitive rooja, partitive rooja)

1. faeces, excrement

Declension

Galician

Verb

roe

1. inflection of roer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle French

Etymology

Old French roe < Latin rota.

Noun

roe f (plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun ro.

Verb

roe (imperative ro, present tense roer, passive roes, simple past and past participle roa or roet, present participle roende)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• roa

Etymology

From the noun ro.

Verb

roe (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative roe/ro)

1. (often reflexive, with seg) to calm (ned / down), to soothe

References

• “roe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Latin rota.

Noun

roe oblique singular, f (oblique plural roes, nominative singular roe, nominative plural roes)

1. wheel (cylindrical device)

Descendants

• French: roue

Spanish

Verb

roe

1. inflection of roer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative