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Is sturdy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sturdy is a Scrabble US word. The word sturdy is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is sturdy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sturdy is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

STURDY,

5-letter words (7 found)

DRUSY,DURST,DUSTY,RUSTY,STUDY,TURDS,YURTS,

4-letter words (14 found)

DRYS,DUST,DUTY,RUDS,RUDY,RUST,RUTS,RYUS,STUD,SURD,TURD,URDS,URDY,YURT,

3-letter words (12 found)

DRY,RUD,RUT,RYU,STY,SUD,SUR,TRY,UDS,URD,UTS,YUS,

2-letter words (5 found)

ST,UR,US,UT,YU,

You can make 39 words from sturdy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sturdy

sturdy

Etymology

From Middle English sturdy, stourdy, stordy (“bold, valiant, strong, stern, fierce, rebellious”) (perhaps influenced by Middle English sture, stoure, stor (“strong, robust, harsh, stern, violent, fierce, sturdy”); see English stour), from Old French estourdi (“dazed”), form of estourdir, originally “to daze, to make tipsy (almost drunk)” (Modern French étourdir (“to daze, to make tipsy”)), from Vulgar Latin *exturdire. Latin etymology is unclear – presumably it is ex- + turdus (“thrush (bird)”), but how this should mean “daze” is unclear. A speculative theory is that thrushes eat leftover winery grapes and thus became drunk, but this meets with objections.

Disease in cows and sheep is by extension of sense of “daze”, while sense of “strongly built” is of late 14th century, and relationship to earlier sense is less clear, perhaps from sense of a firm strike (causing a daze) or a strong, violent person.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɜːdi/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɜrdi/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di

Adjective

sturdy (comparative sturdier, superlative sturdiest)

  1. Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.
  2. Solid in structure or person.
  3. (obsolete) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.
  4. Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.

Synonyms

  • hardy

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sturdy (uncountable)

  1. A disease caused by a coenurus infestation in the brain of an animal, especially a sheep or canid; coenurosis.
    Synonyms: gid, (obsolete) turnsick

Derived terms

  • sturdied

Translations

References

  • “sturdy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • stordy, stourdy

Etymology

From Old French estourdi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsturdiː/

Adjective

sturdy

  1. bold, valiant; strong in fight, mighty; bellicose

Descendants

  • English: sturdy
  • Yola: sturdy

References

  • “sturdī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English sturdy, from Old French estourdi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stuːˈdiː/

Adjective

sturdy

  1. sturdy

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86

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