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

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4-letter words (4 found)

DURE,RUDE,RUED,URDE,

3-letter words (6 found)

DUE,RED,RUD,RUE,URD,URE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from rude according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rude

rude

English

Etymology

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ro͞od
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹuːd/
    • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɹud/
    • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɹʉːd/
  • Rhymes: -uːd
  • Homophones: rood, rued

Adjective

rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)

  1. Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
  2. Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
  3. Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
  4. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
  5. Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
  6. Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
  7. Crudely made; primitive.

Synonyms

  • (bad-mannered): ill-mannered, uncouth; see Thesaurus:impolite
  • (obscene, pornographic, offensive): adult, blue; see also Thesaurus:obscene or Thesaurus:pornographic
  • (undeveloped): primitive; see Thesaurus:crude

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • Duer, dure, rued, urdé, ured

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rudis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈru.ðə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈru.ðe]

Adjective

rude m or f (masculine and feminine plural rudes)

  1. uncultured, rough

Derived terms

  • rudement
  • rudesa

Further reading

  • “rude”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ruːdə/, [ˈʁuːðə]
  • Rhymes: -uːðə

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).

Noun

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. pane
  2. window
  3. square
  4. lozenge, diamond
Inflection

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).

Noun

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. (botany) rue (various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta)
Inflection

See also

  • ruder
  • rude on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
  • Rude-familien on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁyd/

Adjective

rude (plural rudes)

  1. rough, harsh
    • March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
      "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")
  2. tough, hard; severe
  3. bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
  4. crude, unpolished
  5. hardy, tough, rugged
  6. (informal) formidable, fearsome

Derived terms

  • esprit rude
  • mettre à rude épreuve
  • rudement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • dure, duré, redû

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

Noun

rude f (plural rudis)

  1. rue, common rue (Ruta graveolens)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin rudis, rudem.

Adjective

rude

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

References

  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rude”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rudis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.de/
  • Rhymes: -ude
  • Hyphenation: rù‧de

Adjective

rude (invariable)

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

Derived terms

  • rudemente

References

  • rude in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • rude in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro

Anagrams

  • dure

Latin

Adjective

rude

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of rudis

References

  • "rude", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Verb

rude

  1. alternative form of rudden

Norman

Etymology

From Latin rudis.

Adjective

rude m or f

  1. (Jersey) rough

Derived terms

  • rudement

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rūtā (“rue”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈruː.de/

Noun

rūde f

  1. rue (plants in the genus Ruta)

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.dɛ/
  • Rhymes: -udɛ
  • Syllabification: ru‧de
  • Homophone: rudę

Adjective

rude

  1. inflection of rudy:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rudis.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
  • Hyphenation: ru‧de

Adjective

rude m or f (plural rudes)

  1. rude; bad-mannered
    Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado

Romanian

Noun

rude f pl

  1. plural of rudă

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

rude

  1. inflection of rud:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)

  1. inflection of ruda:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

rude

  1. dative/locative singular of ruda

Venetan

Noun

rude

  1. plural of ruda

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