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Is spur a Scrabble word?

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

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Is spur a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word spur is a Words With Friends word. The word spur is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

PURS,SPUR,URPS,

3-letter words (6 found)

PUR,PUS,SUP,SUR,UPS,URP,

2-letter words (3 found)

UP,UR,US,

You can make 12 words from spur according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of spur

spur psur supr uspr pusr upsr spru psru srpu rspu prsu rpsu surp usrp srup rsup ursp rusp purs uprs prus rpus urps rups

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Definitions and meaning of spur

spur

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɜː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /spɝ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

  1. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
    Meronyms: rowel, prick
  2. A jab given with the spurs.
  3. (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
  4. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
  5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
  6. Roots, tree roots.
  7. (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
  8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
  9. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
  10. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
  11. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
  12. Ergotized rye or other grain.
  13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
  14. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
  15. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
  16. (mining) A branch of a vein.
  17. (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
  18. (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
  19. (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
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Verb

spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)

  1. (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
  2. (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
    Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive; see also Thesaurus:incite
  3. (transitive) To put spurs on.
  4. (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
  5. To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
Derived terms
  • spur on
Translations

Etymology 2

See sparrow.

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

  1. A tern.

Etymology 3

Short for spurious.

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

  1. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.

Etymology 4

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

  1. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
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Etymology 5

Verb

spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
    • 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
    • The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.

Anagrams

  • Prus, purs, surp

Middle English

Noun

spur

  1. Alternative form of spore

Scots

Alternative forms

  • sparra
  • spug
  • spuggie
  • speug

Noun

spur (plural spurs)

  1. sparrow

References

  • “spur” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Source: wiktionary.org