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Is rouse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rouse is a Scrabble US word. The word rouse is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is rouse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rouse is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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5-letter words (3 found)

EUROS,ROUES,ROUSE,

4-letter words (16 found)

EROS,EURO,ORES,OURS,REOS,ROES,ROSE,ROUE,RUES,RUSE,SORE,SOUR,SUER,SURE,URES,USER,

3-letter words (17 found)

ERS,OES,ORE,ORS,OSE,OUR,OUS,REO,RES,ROE,RUE,SER,SOU,SUE,SUR,URE,USE,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ES,OE,OR,OS,OU,RE,SO,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from rouse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rouse

rouse oruse ruose urose ourse uorse rosue orsue rsoue sroue osrue sorue rusoe ursoe rsuoe sruoe usroe suroe ousre uosre osure soure usore suore roues orues ruoes uroes oures uores roeus oreus reous erous oerus eorus rueos ureos reuos eruos ueros euros ouers uoers oeurs eours ueors euors roseu orseu rsoeu sroeu osreu soreu roesu oresu reosu erosu oersu eorsu rseou sreou resou ersou serou esrou oseru soeru oesru eosru seoru esoru ruseo urseo rsueo srueo usreo sureo rueso ureso reuso eruso uerso eurso rseuo sreuo resuo ersuo seruo esruo usero suero uesro eusro seuro esuro ouser uoser osuer souer usoer suoer ouesr uoesr oeusr eousr ueosr euosr oseur soeur oesur eosur seour esour useor sueor uesor eusor seuor esuor

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Definitions and meaning of rouse

rouse

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹaʊz/
  • Homophone: rows (noisy arguments)
  • Rhymes: -aʊz

Etymology 1

From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recusare, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse.

Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

Alternative forms

  • rouze (obsolete)

Noun

rouse (plural rouses)

  1. An arousal.
  2. (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

Verb

rouse (third-person singular simple present rouses, present participle rousing, simple past and past participle roused)

  1. To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
    • 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter Eight, p. 284,[3]
      Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.
  2. To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
    to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
  4. To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
  5. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
  6. (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
  7. (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
  8. (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
Synonyms
  • (to wake someone from sleep): bring round, roust, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
  • (to be awoken from sleep): arise, get up, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake
Derived terms
  • arouse
  • rousing
  • rousingly
  • roust
  • uprouse
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Etymology 2

First attested in the late 16th Century. From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.

Noun

rouse (plural rouses)

  1. An official ceremony over drinks.
  2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  3. Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

References

  • A. Brachet (1868) An etymological dictionary of the French language

Anagrams

  • Euros, Suero, euros, roués, suero

Galician

Verb

rouse

  1. inflection of rousar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org