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Is zoom a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word zoom is a Scrabble US word. The word zoom is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is zoom a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word zoom is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

Z10O1O1M3

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Yes. The word zoom is a Words With Friends word. The word zoom is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

MOZO,ZOOM,

3-letter words (4 found)

MOO,MOZ,OOM,ZOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

MO,OM,OO,ZO,

You can make 10 words from zoom according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of zoom

zoom ozom zoom ozom oozm oozm zomo ozmo zmoo mzoo omzo mozo zomo ozmo zmoo mzoo omzo mozo oomz oomz omoz mooz omoz mooz

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

Definitions and meaning of zoom

zoom

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/, enPR: zo͞om
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Etymology 1

Uncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).

Noun

zoom (plural zooms)

  1. A humming noise from something moving very fast.
  2. (figurative) A quick ascent.
  3. (figurative) A big increase.
  4. An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

  1. To move fast with a humming noise.
  2. (aviation) To zoom climb.
  3. To move rapidly.
  4. To go up sharply.
  5. (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
  6. To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Dutch: zoomen
  • → Finnish: zoomata
  • → French: zoomer
  • → German: zoomen
  • → Italian: zoomare
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: zoome
Translations

Interjection

zoom

  1. Representing a humming sound
  2. Suggesting something moving quickly
  3. Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase

Etymology 2

Genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.

Verb

zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

  1. To participate in a video teleconferencing call.

Noun

zoom (plural zooms)

  1. A video teleconferencing call.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Mozo, mozo

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zoːm/
  • Hyphenation: zoom
  • Rhymes: -oːm

Noun

zoom m (plural zomen, diminutive zoompje n)

  1. edge, border
  2. hem (border of a cloth that is turned around and stitched)
Derived terms
  • Bergen op Zoom
  • zomen
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: soom
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sum
  • → Indonesian: som

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/
  • Hyphenation: zoom

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. zoom (augmentation of a view)
Related terms
  • zoomen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /zoːm/
  • Hyphenation: zoom
  • Rhymes: -oːm
Verb

zoom

  1. inflection of zomen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/
  • Hyphenation: zoom
Verb

zoom

  1. inflection of zoomen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zum/
  • Homophone: zooms
  • Hyphenation: zoom

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. (photography) zoom

Derived terms

  • zoomer

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/

Verb

zoom

  1. singular imperative of zoomen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of zoomen

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zoom.

Noun

zoom m (invariable)

  1. (photography) zoom

Related terms

  • zoomare
  • zoomata

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

zoom

  1. imperative of zoome

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • zum (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zoom.

Pronunciation

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. zoom (augmentation of an image)
  2. (photography) zoom lens (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zoom.

Noun

zoom n (plural zoomuri)

  1. zoom

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English zoom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuːm/

Noun

zoom m inan (genitive singular zoomu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. (photography) zoom

Declension

Related terms

  • zoomový

Spanish

Noun

zoom m (plural zooms)

  1. (photography) zoom

Source: wiktionary.org