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Is rooster a Scrabble word?

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

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Is rooster a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is rooster a Words With Friends word?

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7-letter words (3 found)

ROOSTER,ROOTERS,TOREROS,

6-letter words (10 found)

RESORT,RETROS,ROOSER,ROOTER,ROSTER,ROTORS,SORTER,STORER,TORERO,TOROSE,

5-letter words (21 found)

ESTRO,RESTO,RETRO,ROOSE,ROOST,ROOTS,RORES,RORTS,ROSET,ROTES,ROTOR,ROTOS,SOOTE,SORER,STOOR,STORE,TORES,TOROS,TORRS,TORSE,TORSO,

4-letter words (31 found)

EROS,ERRS,ERST,OOSE,OOTS,ORES,ORTS,REOS,REST,RETS,ROES,ROOS,ROOT,RORE,RORT,ROSE,ROST,ROTE,ROTO,ROTS,SERR,SOOT,SORE,SORT,TOES,TORE,TORO,TORR,TORS,TOSE,TRES,

3-letter words (24 found)

ERR,ERS,EST,OES,OOR,OOS,OOT,ORE,ORS,ORT,OSE,REO,RES,RET,ROE,ROO,ROT,SER,SET,SOT,TES,TOE,TOO,TOR,

2-letter words (12 found)

ER,ES,ET,OE,OO,OR,OS,RE,SO,ST,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 102 words from rooster according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rooster

rooster

Etymology

roost +‎ -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹuːstə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹustəɹ/, enPR: roo͞'stər
  • Rhymes: -uːstə(ɹ)

Noun

rooster (plural roosters)

  1. (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
  2. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
  3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
  4. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
  5. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
  6. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
  7. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
  8. (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.

Synonyms

  • (male chicken): cock
  • (informant): See Thesaurus:informant
  • (violent person): brawler
  • (powerful person): See Thesaurus:important person
  • (pompous person): cock of the walk, cock of the roost
  • (man): See Thesaurus:man

Hypernyms

  • (male chicken): chicken, fowl

Hyponyms

  • (male chicken): cockerel (young rooster)

Coordinate terms

  • (male chicken): hen

Derived terms

Related terms

  • roost

Translations

See also

  • cock-a-doodle-doo

References

  • "rooster, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

  • reroots, rooters, toreros

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch roost, from Frankish *raustjan, from Proto-West Germanic *raustijan, from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to roast, crackle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroːstər/
  • Hyphenation: roos‧ter
  • Rhymes: -oːstər

Noun

rooster n or m (plural roosters, diminutive roostertje n)

  1. grill, grid a metallic maze-structure; some things containing one
  2. a device for roasting
  3. roster, timetable
  4. (crystallographic) lattice.

Derived terms

  • broodrooster
  • uurrooster
  • vierkant rooster

Related terms

  • roosteren

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: roster

Verb

rooster

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

Anagrams

  • torero's

Source: wiktionary.org