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Is snow a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word snow is a Scrabble US word. The word snow is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is snow a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word snow is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (5 found)

NOWS,OWNS,SNOW,SOWN,WONS,

3-letter words (8 found)

NOS,NOW,ONS,OWN,SON,SOW,WON,WOS,

2-letter words (6 found)

NO,ON,OS,OW,SO,WO,

You can make 19 words from snow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of snow

snow nsow sonw osnw nosw onsw snwo nswo swno wsno nwso wnso sown oswn swon wson owsn wosn nows onws nwos wnos owns wons

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Definitions and meaning of snow

snow

Etymology 1

From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.

Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian снег (sneg), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”).

The extended senses all trace back to the appearance of the weather phenomenon.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: snō, IPA(key): /snəʊ/, [snəʊ̯]
  • (US) enPR: snō, IPA(key): /snoʊ/, [snoʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)

  1. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
  2. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
  3. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
  4. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
  6. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
    Synonym: shash
    Near-synonym: static
  7. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
    Synonyms: blow; see also Thesaurus:cocaine
  8. Marine snow.
  9. (informal, in the plural) Clipping of snow tires.
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Verb

snow (third-person singular simple present snows, present participle snowing, simple past snowed or (dialectal) snew, past participle snowed or (dialectal) snown)

  1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
  2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
  3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
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Etymology 2

From Low German Snaue, or Dutch snauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak”). See snout.

Alternative forms

snaw

Noun

snow (plural snows)

  1. (nautical, historical) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.
See also
  • brig

Anagrams

  • nows, owns, sow'n, sown, wons

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • snaw, snowe, snawe, snowȝ, snoȝ, snogh, snou

Etymology

From Old English snāw, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Pronunciation

  • (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /snɑu̯/
  • IPA(key): /snɔu̯/

Noun

snow (plural snowes)

  1. snow (frozen water as precipitation, either while falling or once landed)
  2. snow-white (a snowy white)
  3. The temperature where snow appears.
  4. A blanket of snow; a snowing.

Derived terms

  • snewen
  • snow whit
  • snowen
  • snowisshe
  • snowy

Descendants

  • English: snow
  • Scots: snaw
  • Yola: sneow, sneew, snowe, snow

References

  • “snou, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈno/ [ezˈno]
    • Rhymes: -o
  • IPA(key): /esˈnou/ [ezˈnou̯]
    • Rhymes: -ou

Noun

snow m (uncountable)

  1. snowboarding

Derived terms

Yola

Noun

snow

  1. Alternative form of sneow

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96

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