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Yes. The word scissor is a Scrabble US word. The word scissor is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word scissor is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

S1C3I1S1S1O1R1

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7-letter words (1 found)

SCISSOR,

6-letter words (1 found)

SIROCS,

5-letter words (4 found)

COIRS,CRIOS,CROSS,SIROC,

4-letter words (14 found)

COIR,CORS,COSS,CRIS,ISOS,ORCS,ROCS,SICS,SIRS,SISS,SOCS,SORI,SOSS,SRIS,

3-letter words (15 found)

CIS,COR,COS,IOS,ISO,OIS,ORC,ORS,ROC,SIC,SIR,SIS,SOC,SOS,SRI,

2-letter words (7 found)

IO,IS,OI,OR,OS,SI,SO,

You can make 42 words from scissor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scissor

scissor

Etymology

From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”); ultimately from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪzɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

scissor (plural scissors)

  1. Attributive form of scissors.
  2. (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
  3. (India) Scissors.
  4. (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

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Verb

scissor (third-person singular simple present scissors, present participle scissoring, simple past and past participle scissored)

  1. (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
    • 1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267,[1]
      [The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]
  2. (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
    • 1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,[3]
      The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
    • 1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing,[4]
      This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
    • 1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950,[5]
      She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
  5. (intransitive, sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  6. (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Alternative forms

  • scissors (rare)

Derived terms

  • unscissored

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From scindō (“I cut, tear”) (supine scissum) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskis.sor/, [ˈs̠kɪs̠ːɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈʃis.sor/, [ˈʃisːor]

Noun

scissor m (genitive scissōris); third declension

  1. trancheur, somebody who in a banquet cuts the foodstuffs
  2. a kind of gladiator
    • 1st century BCE, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum IX 466, which is a list of gladiators of the lanista Gaius Salvius Capito in Venusia
  3. (Medieval Latin) tailor
  4. (Medieval Latin) carver

Declension

Third-declension noun.


Source: wiktionary.org