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Is tuber a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tuber a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1U1B3E1R1

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5-letter words (4 found)

BRUTE,BURET,REBUT,TUBER,

4-letter words (5 found)

BRUT,BUTE,RUBE,TRUE,TUBE,

3-letter words (13 found)

BET,BRU,BUR,BUT,REB,RET,RUB,RUE,RUT,TUB,URB,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,ER,ET,RE,TE,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from tuber according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tuber

tuber

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oʹbə(r), IPA(key): /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) enPR: to͞oʹbə(r), IPA(key): /ˈtubɚ/
  • Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Noun

tuber (plural tubers or (uncommon, possibly obsolete) tubera)

  1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
  2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
  3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • tubercle
  • tubercular
Translations

Etymology 2

tube +‎ -er

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

  1. One who tubes.

Anagrams

  • Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ty.be/

Verb

tuber

  1. to make into a tube shape
  2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

Further reading

  • “tuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • brute, buter, rebut

Latin

Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) (though de Vaan is skeptical of the hypothetical morphology).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.bɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪uː.ber]

Noun

tūber n (genitive tūberis); third declension

  1. a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
  2. the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
  3. a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus.

Alternative forms

  • tubur

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊ.bɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪uː.ber]

Noun

tuber m or f (genitive tuberis); third declension

  1. (usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
  2. (usually masculine) the fruit of the above tree
Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

Further reading

  • “tuber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tuber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tuber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Noun

tuber

  1. indefinite plural of tub

Source: wiktionary.org