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Yes. The word sucker is a Scrabble US word. The word sucker is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

SUCKER,UCKERS,

5-letter words (9 found)

CRUES,CRUSE,CUKES,CURES,CURSE,ECRUS,RECKS,RUCKS,SUCRE,

4-letter words (28 found)

CRUE,CRUS,CUES,CUKE,CURE,CURS,CUSK,ECRU,ECUS,ERKS,EUKS,KUES,RECK,RECS,RUCK,RUCS,RUES,RUSE,RUSK,SCUR,SERK,SKER,SUCK,SUER,SURE,UKES,URES,USER,

3-letter words (20 found)

CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,ERK,ERS,EUK,KUE,REC,RES,RUC,RUE,SEC,SER,SUE,SUK,SUR,UKE,URE,USE,

2-letter words (5 found)

ER,ES,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 65 words from sucker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sucker

sucker

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌk.ə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsʌk.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: succor

Etymology 1

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) +‎ -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

  1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. [from late 14th century]
  2. (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. [from 1570s]
  3. (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger
  4. An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
  5. A thing that works by sucking something.
  6. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  7. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  8. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
  9. (British, colloquial) A suction cup.
  10. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
  11. (ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments. [from 1750s]
  12. (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked. [from 1820s]
  13. (slang, archaic) A hard drinker.
    Synonyms: soaker, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard
  14. (US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.
    Synonym: Illinoisian
  15. (US, obsolete) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
  16. (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person. [from 1830s]
    Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch; see also Thesaurus:dupe
  17. (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
    • 2015, Clutch, Sucker for the Witch
      Oh, I begged and I pleaded like a fiend for a fix / I must unburden my guilty conscience / I admit it, I'm a sucker for the witch
  18. (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
Holonyms
  • suckerdom
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

  1. (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
  2. (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
  3. (intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
  4. (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
  5. (transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.
Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from German Sache (“thing”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

  1. (slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.
    • 1984, Runaway (film): scene in a helicopter, around 5 min 20 sec
      RAMSAY: Dave, can you land this sucker?
    See if you can get that sucker working again.
  2. (slang, derogatory) A person.
Usage notes

Usually preceded by a demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those).

Synonyms
  • (thing or object): thing, object

See also

  • sucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Krusec, Uckers

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Middle High German zucker, from Italian zucchero, which see.

Noun

sucker m

  1. sugar

Descendants

  • German Low German: Sucker
  • Dutch Low Saxon: suker
  • Plautdietsch: Zocka
  • → Danish: sukker (see there for further descendants)
  • → Norwegian: sukker
  • → Saterland Frisian: Sukker
  • → Swedish: socker
    • → Finnish: sokeri
  • → West Frisian: sûker

Source: wiktionary.org