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Is torn a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word torn is a Scrabble US word. The word torn is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is torn a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word torn is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

T1O1R1N1

Is torn a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word torn is a Words With Friends word. The word torn is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Torn

You can make 13 words from 'torn' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'torn'

RONT 4TORN 4
TRON 4 

3 letters words from 'torn'

NOR 3NOT 3
ORT 3ROT 3
TON 3TOR 3

2 letters words from 'torn'

NO 2ON 2
OR 2TO 2

All 4 letters words made out of torn

torn otrn tron rton ortn rotn tonr otnr tnor ntor ontr notr trno rtno tnro ntro rnto nrto ornt ront onrt nort rnot nrot

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word torn. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in torn.

Definitions and meaning of torn

torn

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: tôrn, IPA(key): /tɔɹn/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tôn, IPA(key): /tɔːn/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōrn, IPA(key): /to(ː)ɹn/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /toən/
    • Homophone: tawn (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Verb

torn

  1. past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).

Usage notes

  • The past participle of the tear (“produce liquid from the eyes”), is teared.

Anagrams

  • -tron, ront, tron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tornus, attested from the 14th ceuntury.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈtoɾn/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈtorn/

Noun

torn m (plural torns)

  1. lathe, potter's wheel
  2. turn, go (as in take turns or as a move in a game)
    Synonym: tanda

Derived terms

  • tornejar

References

Further reading

  • “torn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “torn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “torn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Noun

torn

  1. Hard mutation of dorn.
  2. Mixed mutation of dorn.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).

Noun

torn c (singular definite tornen, plural indefinite torne)

  1. thorn

Declension

References

  • “torn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Noun

torn (genitive torni, partitive torni)

  1. tower

Declension

Further reading

  • torn in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʰɔɻɳ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɻɳ

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þorn (“thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz (“thorn, sloe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål torn, Icelandic þyrnir, Danish torn, Swedish törne, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Noun

torn f (genitive singular tornar, plural tornir)

  1. (botany) hawthorn bush; thorn
Declension
Related terms
  • tornur
  • tornutur
  • tornrunnur
  • tornatyssi
  • tornarunnur
  • tornakrúna

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German torn, from Latin turris.

Noun

torn n (genitive singular torns, plural torn)

  1. tower, belfry, spire
  2. dungeon
Declension
Related terms
  • tornklokka
  • klokkutorn

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Noun

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural torner, definite plural tornene)

  1. thorn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Noun

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural tornar, definite plural tornane)

  1. thorn

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /torn/, [torˠn]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“bitter”).

Adjective

torn

  1. bitter; painful; severe
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“anger”).

Noun

torn n (nominative plural torn)

  1. anger, anguish, distress

Romanian

Verb

torn

  1. first-person singular present indicative of turna
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of turna
  3. third-person plural present indicative of turna

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German tōrn, tōren, from Old French tor, from Latin turris, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis), from a Mediterranean substrate loan.

Noun

torn n

  1. tower
  2. (chess) rook
Declension
Descendants
  • → Finnish: torni

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish þorn, from Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, whence also Old English þorn (English thorn. From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).

Noun

torn c

  1. (botany) thorn
Declension

Anagrams

  • tron

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (Latin) acute, colicky pains.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)