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Is rook a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rook is a Scrabble US word. The word rook is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is rook a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rook is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

R1O1O1K5

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4-letter words (2 found)

KORO,ROOK,

3-letter words (4 found)

KOR,OOR,ROK,ROO,

2-letter words (4 found)

KO,OK,OO,OR,

You can make 10 words from rook according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of rook

rook orok rook orok oork oork roko orko rkoo kroo okro koro roko orko rkoo kroo okro koro ookr ookr okor koor okor koor

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

Definitions and meaning of rook

rook

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʊk/
  • (sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete) IPA(key): /ɹuːk/
  • Homophone: ruck (most accents without foot-strut split)
  • Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

  • From Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
  • (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.

Noun

rook (countable and uncountable, plural rooks)

  1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
  2. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceiver, Thesaurus:fraudster
    • 7 April 1705, William Wycherley, Letter to Alexander Pope in The Works of Alexander Pope 36:
      So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
  3. A bad deal; a rip-off.
  4. (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  5. (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
  6. (slang, archaic) A parson.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • squab

Verb

rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)

  1. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
Synonyms
  • (cheat): cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle, trick
Hyponyms
  • (cheat): Greek (at cards)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”). Compare roc.

Noun

rook (plural rooks)

  2. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
  3. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
Synonyms
  • (chesspiece): castle
  • (castle): castle, fortress
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • ♖, ♜

Etymology 3

From rookie.

Noun

rook (plural rooks)

  1. (baseball, slang) A rookie.

Etymology 4

From Middle English roke, rock, rok (“mist; vapour; drizzle; smoke; fumes”), from Old Norse *rauk, related to Icelandic rok, roka (“whirlwind; seafoam; seaspray”), Middle Dutch rooc, rok, Modern Dutch rook (“smoke; fog”).

Noun

rook (uncountable)

  1. mist; fog; roke

Etymology 5

Verb

rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)

  1. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.

Etymology 6

Verb

rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of look. (mimicking Asian speech)

References

Anagrams

  • Koro, Kroo, Orok, koro, kroo, roko

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rʊə̯k/

Etymology 1

From Dutch rook (“smoke”), from Middle Dutch rôoc, from Old Dutch *rōk, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Noun

rook (uncountable)

  1. smoke
Derived terms
  • rookwolk

Etymology 2

From Dutch roken (“to smoke”).

Verb

rook (present rook, present participle rokende, past participle gerook)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to smoke (a tobacco product or surrogate)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːk/
  • Hyphenation: rook
  • Rhymes: -oːk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rôoc, from Old Dutch *rōk, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Noun

rook m (uncountable)

  1. smoke
Derived terms
  • roken
  • rookontwikkeling
  • rooksignaal
  • rookwolk
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: rook
  • Negerhollands: rook

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rook

  1. inflection of roken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Verb

rook

  1. singular past indicative of ruiken
  2. singular past indicative of rieken

Anagrams

  • koor

Source: wiktionary.org