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Is source a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word source is a Scrabble US word. The word source is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is source a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word source is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1O1U1R1C3E1

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6-letter words (5 found)

CEROUS,COURES,COURSE,CROUSE,SOURCE,

5-letter words (17 found)

CEROS,CORES,CORSE,COURE,COURS,CRUES,CRUSE,CURES,CURSE,ECRUS,EUROS,ROUES,ROUSE,SCORE,SCOUR,SOUCE,SUCRE,

4-letter words (35 found)

CERO,CORE,CORS,COSE,COUR,CRUE,CRUS,CUES,CURE,CURS,ECOS,ECRU,ECUS,EROS,EURO,ORCS,ORES,OURS,RECS,REOS,ROCS,ROES,ROSE,ROUE,RUCS,RUES,RUSE,SCUR,SECO,SORE,SOUR,SUER,SURE,URES,USER,

3-letter words (30 found)

COR,COS,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECO,ECU,ERS,OES,ORC,ORE,ORS,OSE,OUR,OUS,REC,REO,RES,ROC,ROE,RUC,RUE,SEC,SER,SOC,SOU,SUE,SUR,URE,USE,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ES,OE,OR,OS,OU,RE,SO,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 98 words from source according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of source

source

Etymology

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) +‎ regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. See surge.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sɔɹs/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(ː)ɹs/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /soəs/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /suːɹs/, /sʊɹs/
  • Homophone: sauce (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

Noun

source (plural sources)

  1. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
  3. A reporter's informant.
  4. (computing) Source code.
  5. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  6. (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
  7. (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
    Coordinate term: target

Synonyms

  • wellspring

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "graph theory"): sink

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • resource

Translations

See also

  • target

Verb

source (third-person singular simple present sources, present participle sourcing, simple past and past participle sourced)

  1. To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
  2. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.

Derived terms

  • (mainly US): sourcing
  • (mainly US): insourcing
  • (mainly US): outsourcing

Translations

References

Further reading

  • “source”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “source”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • 'course, Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, course, crouse

Chinese

Alternative forms

  • 梳屎, 梳士

Etymology

From English source.

Pronunciation

Noun

source (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. source (person, place, thing)
  2. (university slang) source material used for copying or plagiarism

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to rise”). See surge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suʁs/

Noun

source f (plural sources)

  1. source, spring (of water)
  2. source, origin (of anything)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Romanian: sursă

Verb

source

  1. inflection of sourcer:
    1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “source”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • coeurs, cœurs
  • coures
  • course, coursé
  • écrous

Middle English

Noun

source

  1. Alternative form of sours

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