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Is rooibos a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word rooibos is a Scrabble US word. The word rooibos is worth 9 points in Scrabble:
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Is rooibos a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word rooibos is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:
R1O1O1I1B3O1S1
Is rooibos a Words With Friends word?
The word rooibos is NOT a Words With Friends word.
You can make 59 words from rooibos according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Borrowed from Afrikaans rooibos, from Dutch rooi (“red”) + bosch (“bush”).
rooibos (uncountable)
Compound of rooi + bos.
rooibos (uncountable)
Borrowed from Afrikaans rooibos (“rooibos”), equivalent to a (Afrikaans and Dutch) compound of rooi (“red”) + bos (“bush”).
rooibos m (plural rooibossen, diminutive rooibosje n)
Compounds in Dutch normally always take the grammatical gender of the latter component ("bos"), which would be neuter in this case. Because the word was borrowed from Afrikaans which makes no use of grammatical genders, it took the masculine gender which is often the gender assigned to loan words.
Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans rooibos.
rooibos m inan (indeclinable)