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Is sorrow a Scrabble word?

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

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Is sorrow a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1O1R1R1O1W4

Is sorrow a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word sorrow is a Words With Friends word. The word sorrow is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1O1R1R1O1W4

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6-letter words (1 found)

SORROW,

4-letter words (3 found)

ROOS,ROWS,WOOS,

3-letter words (8 found)

OOR,OOS,ORS,ROO,ROW,SOW,WOO,WOS,

2-letter words (6 found)

OO,OR,OS,OW,SO,WO,

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

Definitions and meaning of sorrow

sorrow

Alternative forms

  • sorrowe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sorow, sorwe, sorghe, sorȝe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sŏrʼō, IPA(key): /ˈsɒɹ.əʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɹ.oʊ/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɹ.oʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ

Noun

sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)

  1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
    • August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
      The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
  2. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

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Verb

sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)

  1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
  2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Derived terms

  • besorrow

Translations

References

  • “sorrow”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "sorrow" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Source: wiktionary.org