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Yes. The word scribe is a Scrabble US word. The word scribe is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word scribe is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

SCRIBE,

5-letter words (15 found)

BICES,BIERS,BIRSE,BREIS,BRIES,BRISE,CIRES,CRIBS,CRIES,CRISE,ERICS,ICERS,RIBES,RICES,SERIC,

4-letter words (22 found)

BICE,BIER,BISE,BREI,BRIE,BRIS,CIRE,CRIB,CRIS,ERIC,ICER,ICES,IRES,REBS,RECS,REIS,RIBS,RICE,RISE,SEIR,SICE,SIRE,

3-letter words (18 found)

BES,BIS,CIS,ERS,ICE,IRE,REB,REC,REI,RES,RIB,SEC,SEI,SER,SIB,SIC,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,BI,ER,ES,IS,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 64 words from scribe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scribe

scribe

Etymology

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scriba (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scribere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”). Doublet of shrive.

The verb sense used in carpentry comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɹaɪb/
  • Rhymes: -aɪb

Noun

scribe (plural scribes)

  1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
    1. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.W
  2. (informal) A journalist.
  3. (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  4. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Synonyms

  • amanuensis
  • scrivener
  • tabellion

Derived terms

  • etching scribe
  • scribal
  • scribely
  • scribacious

Translations

Verb

scribe (third-person singular simple present scribes, present participle scribing, simple past and past participle scribed)

  1. To write.
  2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  3. To record, as a scribe.
  4. To write or draw with a scribe.
  5. (carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
  6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Related terms

  • ascribe
  • circumscribe
  • describe
  • inscribe
  • prescribe
  • proscribe
  • shrive
  • transcribe

Translations

See also

  • notary

Further reading

  • “scribe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “scribe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrība. Doublet of écrivain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skʁib/

Noun

scribe m (plural scribes)

  1. scribe

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Verb

scribe

  1. present of scriber
  2. imperative of scriber

Latin

Verb

scrībe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of scrībō

Occitan

Verb

scribe

  1. (Gascony) to write

Source: wiktionary.org