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Is slur a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word slur is a Scrabble US word. The word slur is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

S1L1U1R1

Is slur a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word slur is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

S1L1U1R1

Is slur a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word slur is a Words With Friends word. The word slur is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1L2U2R1

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4-letter words (2 found)

LURS,SLUR,

3-letter words (2 found)

LUR,SUR,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,US,

You can make 6 words from slur according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of slur

slur lsur sulr uslr lusr ulsr slru lsru srlu rslu lrsu rlsu surl usrl srul rsul ursl rusl lurs ulrs lrus rlus urls ruls

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word slur. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in slur.

Definitions and meaning of slur

slur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɜː(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).

  • (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.

Noun

slur (plural slurs)

  1. An insult or slight.
    1. An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
  2. A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
  3. An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
  4. Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
  6. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
  8. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
    Coordinate term: tie
Derived terms
Related terms
  • slurry
Translations

Verb

slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

  1. To insult or slight.
  2. To run together; to articulate poorly.
  3. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
  4. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  5. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  6. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  7. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
  • slur over
Translations

Etymology 2

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Noun

slur (plural slurs)

  1. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Further reading

  • Slur (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • URLs, lurs

Source: wiktionary.org