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Is twitter a Scrabble word?

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

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Is twitter a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is twitter a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word twitter is a Words With Friends word. The word twitter is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

TWITTER,

6-letter words (2 found)

TITTER,WITTER,

5-letter words (9 found)

TETRI,TEWIT,TITER,TITRE,TRITE,TWIER,TWIRE,TWITE,WRITE,

4-letter words (14 found)

RITE,RITT,TIER,TIRE,TITE,TRET,TREW,TRIE,TWIT,WEIR,WERT,WIRE,WITE,WRIT,

3-letter words (12 found)

EWT,IRE,REI,RET,REW,RIT,TET,TEW,TIE,TIT,WET,WIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

ER,ET,EW,IT,RE,TE,TI,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from twitter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of twitter

twitter

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: twĭt'ər, IPA(key): /ˈtwɪtə/
  • (General American) enPR: twĭt'ər, IPA(key): /ˈtwɪtəɹ/, /ˈtwɪt̬əɹ/, [ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: twit‧ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).

Noun

twitter (countable and uncountable, plural twitters)

  1. (uncountable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
  2. (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
  3. (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
  4. (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
  5. (countable, informal or UK, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
Derived terms
  • twitter-bone
Translations

Verb

twitter (third-person singular simple present twitters, present participle twittering, simple past and past participle twittered)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  3. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
  4. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
  6. Alternative form of Twitter
    Synonym: tweet
  7. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)(intransitive) To move like a songbird.
Derived terms
  • atwitter
  • twitterpated
Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown; possibly related to twine, twist, and twirl.

Noun

twitter (plural twitters)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, weaving, archaic) A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.
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French

Alternative forms

  • tweeter

Etymology

From English Twitter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twi.te/

Verb

twitter

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (to post to Twitter)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • twit (a tweet (a message on Twitter))
  • tweet (a tweet (a message on Twitter))
  • twittosphère
  • twitteur

Source: wiktionary.org