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Is ruse a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word ruse is a Scrabble US word. The word ruse is worth 4 points in Scrabble:
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Is ruse a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word ruse is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:
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Is ruse a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word ruse is a Words With Friends word. The word ruse is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 20 words from ruse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”). Doublet of recuse and rouse in the latter case.
The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.
ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)
ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused)
From Old Danish ruse, ultimately from the same root as rør (“pipe, reed”), from which the rushes were braided. Also related to German Reuse (“fish-trap”).
ruse c (singular definite rusen, plural indefinite ruser)
rusa (“Russian”) + -e (adverbial suffix).
ruse
From ruser.
ruse f (plural ruses)
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ruse m
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
borrowed from Anglo-Norman reuse, ruse; compare rusen.
ruse (rare, Late Middle English)
ruse
ruse
Possibly from a Celtic word, from Gaulish rusca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), possibly from earlier *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig, till (soil)”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, quarrel”) or *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out, open, acquire”).
Cognate with Danish ruse (“fish trap”), Swedish ryssja (“fish trap”) and German Reuse (“fish trap”).
ruse f or m (definite singular rusa or rusen, indefinite plural ruser, definite plural rusene)
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ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past rusa or ruset or ruste, past participle rusa or ruset or rust, present participle rusende)
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ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past and past participle rusa or ruset, present participle rusende)
ruse
Probably based on Latin rursus (“backwards”)
ruse oblique singular, f (oblique plural ruses, nominative singular ruse, nominative plural ruses)
ruse
ruse f pl or n pl