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Is sorb a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sorb is a Scrabble US word. The word sorb is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is sorb a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sorb is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (5 found)

BORS,BROS,ORBS,ROBS,SORB,

3-letter words (8 found)

BOR,BOS,BRO,OBS,ORB,ORS,ROB,SOB,

2-letter words (5 found)

BO,OB,OR,OS,SO,

You can make 18 words from sorb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sorb

sorb osrb srob rsob orsb rosb sobr osbr sbor bsor obsr bosr srbo rsbo sbro bsro rbso brso orbs robs obrs bors rbos bros

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Definitions and meaning of sorb

sorb

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːb/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sɔɹb/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /soːb/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.

Noun

sorb (plural sorbs)

  1. The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
  2. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
  3. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
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Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin sorbeo, sorbere.

Verb

sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed)

  1. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
    • 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148,
      In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
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Anagrams

  • BORs, Bros., ORBs, bors, bros, bros., orbs, robs

Romanian

Etymology 1

Verb

sorb

  1. inflection of sorbi:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin sorbus.

Noun

sorb m (plural sorbi)

  1. wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis)
Declension

Etymology 3

From sorbi.

Noun

sorb n (plural sorburi)

  1. whirlpool
  2. strainer
Declension
See also
  • vârtej

Further reading

  • sorb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Source: wiktionary.org