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Is route a Scrabble word?

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

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Is route a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (3 found)

OUTER,OUTRE,ROUTE,

4-letter words (8 found)

EURO,ROTE,ROUE,ROUT,TORE,TOUR,TROU,TRUE,

3-letter words (14 found)

ORE,ORT,OUR,OUT,REO,RET,ROE,ROT,RUE,RUT,TOE,TOR,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ET,OE,OR,OU,RE,TE,TO,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from route according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of route

route

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, Ireland) IPA(key): /ɹuːt/
    • In British English, the pronunciation /ɹaʊt/ used to exist alongside /ɹuːt/, but it was considered nonstandard by the 19th century and has now disappeared.
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹut/, /ɹaʊt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹʉːt/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ɹut/, (nonstandard) /ɹʌʊt/
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ɹʉt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt, -aʊt
  • Homophones: root, rute (with /uː/), rout (with /aʊ/)

Etymology 1

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.

Noun

route (plural routes)

  1. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
  2. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
  3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
  4. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
  5. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
  6. (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
  7. (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
  8. (railway) A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: ルート
Translations

Verb

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)

  1. (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
  2. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
  3. (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
Derived terms
  • reroute
  • router
Translations
See also
  • (Internet) bridge
  • (Internet) LAN
  • (Internet) WAN

Etymology 2

Verb

route

  1. Eye dialect spelling of root.

Further reading


  • “route”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “route”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • utero-, outer, ruote, outré, Toure, rouet, outre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.tə/
  • Hyphenation: rou‧te
  • Rhymes: -utə

Noun

route f (plural routes or routen, diminutive routetje n)

  1. route, course, way (particular pathway or direction one travels)
  2. road, route

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: rute

French

Etymology

From Old French rote, from Latin rupta [via].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁut/
  • Rhymes: -ut

Noun

route f (plural routes)

  1. road (sometimes route like "Route 66")
  2. route, way, path
    Synonym: chemin

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “route”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • outre, outré, troue, troué

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French route.

Alternative forms

  • rowte

Noun

route (plural routes)

  1. route
  2. a group of people
    1. band, company
      • '14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Prologue, 1-3
        Whan that the Knight hadde thus his tale ytold
        In all the route nas ther yong ne old
        That he ne saide it was a noble storye
    2. crowd, populace
    3. throng; gang, with connotation of illicit activity
  3. the proper condition of something
Descendants
  • English: route
    • → Japanese: ルート

References

  • “rǒute, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “rǒute, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

route

  1. first-person singular present indicative of routen

Etymology 3

Verb

route

  1. first-person singular present indicative of routen

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rote, from Latin rupta [via].

Noun

route f (plural routes) (Jersey)

  1. road
  2. (nautical, of a watercraft) course

Old French

Noun

route oblique singular, f (oblique plural routes, nominative singular route, nominative plural routes)

  1. Alternative form of rote (“route”)

Swedish

Noun

route c

  1. Alternative form of rutt (“route”)

Declension

References

  • route in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • route in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org