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Is spurn a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word spurn is a Scrabble US word. The word spurn is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is spurn a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word spurn is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

SPURN,

4-letter words (8 found)

NURS,PUNS,PURS,RUNS,SPUN,SPUR,URNS,URPS,

3-letter words (13 found)

NUR,NUS,PUN,PUR,PUS,RUN,SUN,SUP,SUR,UNS,UPS,URN,URP,

2-letter words (5 found)

NU,UN,UP,UR,US,

You can make 27 words from spurn according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of spurn

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Definitions and meaning of spurn

spurn

Etymology

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /spɜːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /spɝn/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Verb

spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  2. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  3. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

Derived terms

  • spurner

Translations

Noun

spurn (plural spurns)

  1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  2. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  3. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  4. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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Icelandic

Noun

spurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir)

  1. Used in set phrases

Declension

Derived terms

  • afspurn

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from spurnen.

Alternative forms

  • sporn, spurne

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spurn/

Noun

spurn

  1. (rare) A stumbling; a collapse.
  2. (rare) A strike or blow using one's feet.
Descendants
  • English: spurn
References
  • “spurn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

Verb

spurn

  1. Alternative form of spurnen

Source: wiktionary.org