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Is rookie a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rookie is a Scrabble US word. The word rookie is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is rookie a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rookie is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Is rookie a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word rookie is a Words With Friends word. The word rookie is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

ROOKIE,

5-letter words (4 found)

IROKO,KIORE,KOORI,OORIE,

4-letter words (8 found)

KEIR,KERO,KIER,KORE,KORO,REIK,ROKE,ROOK,

3-letter words (17 found)

EIK,ERK,IKE,IRE,IRK,KIR,KOI,KOR,OIK,OKE,OOR,ORE,REI,REO,ROE,ROK,ROO,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,IO,KI,KO,OE,OI,OK,OO,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from rookie according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rookie

rookie

Etymology

Thought to be an alteration of recruit +‎ -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) +‎ -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹʊki/
  • Rhymes: -ʊki

Noun

rookie (plural rookies)

  1. An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
  2. A novice.
  3. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
  4. (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

Synonyms

  • beginner
  • newbie
  • noob
  • tyro
  • novice
  • See also Thesaurus:beginner

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

rookie (comparative rookier, superlative rookiest)

  1. non-professional; amateur
    The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.
    the rookiest of rookie mistakes

Translations

Verb

rookie (third-person singular simple present rookies, present participle rookying, simple past and past participle rookied)

  1. (intransitive) To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
  2. (transitive, chiefly sports) To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.

See also

  • naive
  • rooky (homophone)

Anagrams

  • Koorie

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rookie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈruki/ [ˈru.ki]
  • Rhymes: -uki

Noun

rookie m or f by sense (plural rookies)

  1. rookie

Usage notes

  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Source: wiktionary.org