Rune in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rune

You can make 16 words from 'rune' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'rune'
• 3 letters words from 'rune'
• 2 letters words from 'rune'

4 letters words from 'rune'

RUNE 4

3 letters words from 'rune'

ERN 3	NUR 3
REN 3	RUE 3
RUN 3	URE 3
URN 3

2 letters words from 'rune'

EN 2	ER 2
NE 2	NU 2
RE 2	UN 2
UR 2

Definitions and meaning of rune

rune

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ro͞on, IPA^(key): /ɹuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

rune (plural runes)

1. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
3. A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol.
4. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 15:

     the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.

5. (obsolete) A roun (secret or mystery).
6. (programming) In the Go programming language, a Unicode code point.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Nuer, Uren, neur-, urne

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Danish

Noun

rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)

1. rune

Declension

References

• “rune” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rune, from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrynə/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ne
• Rhymes: -ynə

Noun

rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)

1. rune

Derived terms

• runenschrift
• runenteken

Anagrams

• uren
• urne

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyn/
• Rhymes: -yn

Noun

rune f (plural runes)

1. rune

Derived terms

• runologie

Descendants

• → Turkish: rün

Further reading

• “rune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -une

Noun

rune f

1. plural of runa

Anagrams

• urne

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *rūna, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.

Noun

rune f

1. (rare) secretive whispering

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J., “rune (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek‎^[1], The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1885–1929, →ISBN, page I

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʉːnə/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

Noun

rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

References

• “rune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• uren

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʉːnə/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

Noun

rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

References

• “rune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːne/

Noun

rūne

1. accusative singular of rūn
2. genitive singular of rūn
3. dative singular of rūn
4. nominative plural of rūn
5. accusative plural of rūn

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rune (Cyrillic spelling руне)

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• a summary, a statement bringing together all the main items.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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