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Is burn a Scrabble word?

Yes, burn is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of burn?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.countableslanguncountable

2. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).countableslanguncountable

3. (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.Examples: "TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell."; "“Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull."; "It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…]"UKslanguncountable

4. (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.Examples: "Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data."countableuncountable

5. (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.uncountable

6. (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.Examples: "On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]"countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.Examples: "He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."; "On July 1, 1402,⁹⁵ when the Prince of Yen reached P’u-k’ou (in Kiangsu), Sheng Yung and his imperial troops attacked him and attempted to burn his boats.⁹⁶"; "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."Synonyms: burn, cinder, forsweal, incinerate, singe, torchtransitive

2. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.Examples: "He watched the house burn."; "Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field."Synonyms: combust, go upintransitive

3. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.Examples: "He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."transitive

4. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.Examples: "The grill was too hot and the steak burned."intransitive

5. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.Examples: "to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block"; "I posted myself near a place where they had been burning charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing."transitive

6. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.Examples: "She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."Synonyms: scathe, vitriolizetransitive

noun (English)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.Examples: "This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home."; "He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones."; "At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the burn diverted through a temporary culvert."Northern-EnglandScotland

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "burn"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "burn"?

Scrabble
6 points
B3
U1
R1
N1
Words With Friends
9 points
B4
U2
R1
N2

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