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

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4-letter words (2 found)

OURS,SOUR,

3-letter words (5 found)

ORS,OUR,OUS,SOU,SUR,

2-letter words (6 found)

OR,OS,OU,SO,UR,US,

You can make 13 words from sour according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sour

sour osur suor usor ousr uosr soru osru srou rsou orsu rosu suro usro sruo rsuo urso ruso ours uors orus rous uros ruos

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Definitions and meaning of sour

sour

Alternative forms

  • sower, sowre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).

Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”), Polish ser (“cheese”), Czech sýr (“cheese”), Slovak syr (“cheese”), Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”), Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsaʊə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsaʊɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)

Adjective

sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)

  1. Tasting of acidity.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  4. (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
  5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
  6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "soil, petroleum"): sweet

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Noun

sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)

  1. The sensation of a sour taste.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  4. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  5. The acidic solution used in souring fabric.

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Verb

sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)

  1. (transitive) To make sour.
  2. (intransitive) To become sour.
  3. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  4. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
  5. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
  7. (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • besour
  • unsour

Translations

Anagrams

  • Ruso, ours

French

Adjective

sour (feminine soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr

Preposition

sour

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of sur

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sūr.

Alternative forms

  • sower, soure, sowre

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suːr/

Adjective

sour

  1. sour, acidic, bitter
  2. foul-smelling, rancid
  3. fermented, curdled
  4. unpleasant, unattractive
Derived terms
  • sour dogh
Descendants
  • English: sour
  • Scots: sour

Etymology 2

From Old French essorer.

Verb

sour

  1. Alternative form of soren (“to soar”)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • sora (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Noun

sour f (plural sours)

  1. (Puter, Vallader) sister

Coordinate terms

  • (in terms of gender):
    • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frar
    • (Puter) frer

Source: wiktionary.org