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Yes. The word row is a Scrabble US word. The word row is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (1 found)

ROW,

2-letter words (3 found)

OR,OW,WO,

You can make 4 words from row according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of row

row orw rwo wro owr wor

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Definitions and meaning of row

row

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).

Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative forms

  • rew (dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊ/
  • Homophones: rho, roe
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
  2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
    Antonym: column
  3. (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of cornrow.
Synonyms
  • (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
  • (in a table): line
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ɹəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: rō, IPA(key): /ɹoʊ/
  • Homophones: rho, roe
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
    Synonym: paddle
  2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
  3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
Derived terms
  • get in the boat and row, get in the boat and start rowing
  • row back
  • rowboat (see also rowing boat)
  • rower
  • row in the same boat
Translations

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. An act or instance of rowing.
  2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rou, IPA(key): /ɹaʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. A noisy argument.
    Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
  2. A continual loud noise.
    Synonyms: din, racket
Translations

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

  1. (intransitive) To argue noisily.
    Synonyms: argue, fight
Translations

Anagrams

  • Wor., wor

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ров (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ровъ (rovŭ, “ditch”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔw/, [row]

Noun

row m inan (diminutive rowk)

  1. grave

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “row”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “row”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Manx

Etymology

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

Verb

row

  1. was, were (dependent form)

Usage notes

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

Old English

Alternative forms

  • rō

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rōu (“calm, rest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːw/

Noun

rōw f

  1. quiet, rest, calm

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
    • English: roo
    • Scots: ro, ruve

References

  • Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “rōw”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Noun

row (plural rows)

  1. roll

Derived terms

  • row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rovъ.

Noun

row m inan

  1. grave

Further reading

  • “row” in Soblex

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

rōw f (plural rowa)

  1. rook (bird)
  2. raven

Source: wiktionary.org