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Is scoop a Scrabble word?

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

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Is scoop a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is scoop a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word scoop is a Words With Friends word. The word scoop is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

COOPS,SCOOP,

4-letter words (8 found)

COOP,COOS,COPS,OOPS,POCO,POOS,SCOP,SOOP,

3-letter words (10 found)

COO,COP,COS,OOP,OOS,OPS,POO,POS,SOC,SOP,

2-letter words (5 found)

OO,OP,OS,PO,SO,

You can make 25 words from scoop according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of scoop

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Definitions and meaning of scoop

scoop

Etymology

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”).

Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sko͞op, IPA(key): /skuːp/
  • Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

  1. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
  2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
  3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
  4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
    Synonyms: dope, poop
  5. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
  6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
  7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
  10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  11. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
  12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
  13. (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
  14. (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
  15. (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
  16. (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Synonyms

  • (tool): scooper
  • (amount held by a scoop): scoopful

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)

  1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
  3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  4. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
  5. (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skup/

Noun

scoop m (plural scoops)

  1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scoop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskup/
  • Rhymes: -up

Noun

scoop m (invariable)

  1. (journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Further reading

  • scoop (giornalismo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Anagrams

  • scopo, scopò

Source: wiktionary.org