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Is rumor a Scrabble word?

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

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Is rumor a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

RUMOR,

4-letter words (2 found)

MURR,ROUM,

3-letter words (5 found)

MOR,MOU,OUR,ROM,RUM,

2-letter words (7 found)

MO,MU,OM,OR,OU,UM,UR,

You can make 15 words from rumor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rumor

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Definitions and meaning of rumor

rumor

Alternative forms

  • rumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹumɚ/
  • Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

Noun

rumor (countable and uncountable, plural rumors) (American spelling)

  1. (countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
  2. (uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.
  3. (uncountable, archaic) Report, news, information in general.
  4. (uncountable, obsolete) Fame, reputation.
  5. (uncountable, obsolete) Clamor, din, outcry.

Synonyms

  • (piece of information):
  • (information of questionable accuracy): gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

Hypernyms

  • information

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rumor (third-person singular simple present rumors, present participle rumoring, simple past and past participle rumored)

  1. (transitive, usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūmōrem (a borrowing per DCVB). Doublet of remor. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ruˈmor]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ruˈmo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ruˈmoɾ]

Noun

rumor m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural rumors)

  1. rumor

Related terms

Further reading

  • “rumor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *roumōs, from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈruː.mor/, [ˈruːmɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.mor/, [ˈruːmor]

Noun

rūmor m (genitive rūmōris); third declension

  1. rumor, hearsay, gossip
  2. rustle, murmur, a murmuring
  3. the voice of the people

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rumor 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)
  • rumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūmor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.mɔr/
  • Rhymes: -umɔr
  • Syllabification: ru‧mor

Noun

rumor m inan

  1. din, hubbub, racket, tumult, uproar
    Synonyms: wrzawa, zamieszanie

Declension

Further reading

  • rumor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rumōrem.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: ru‧mor

Noun

rumor m (plural rumores)

  1. rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)
  2. continuous noise

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rumor.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rumorem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ruˈmoɾ/ [ruˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ru‧mor

Noun

rumor m (plural rumores)

  1. rumor
    Synonym: fábula
  2. murmur
    Synonym: murmurio

Related terms

Further reading

  • “rumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

References

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rumor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾuˈmoɾ/, [ɾʊˈmoɾ]
  • Hyphenation: ru‧mor

Noun

rumór (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜋᜓᜇ᜔)

  1. rumor
    Synonyms: tsismis, bali-balita, usap-usapan, bulong-bulungan

Source: wiktionary.org