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Is corner a Scrabble word?

Yes, corner is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of corner?

Definition

noun (English)

1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.Maine

2. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.Examples: "corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent"attributive

3. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.Examples: "In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful."

4. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.Examples: "It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression."figuratively

5. (heading) Relating to the playing field.Examples: "The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside."

6. (heading) Relating to the playing field.Examples: "There are runners on the corners with just one out."

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.Examples: "The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand."; "In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries."transitive

2. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.Examples: "The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court."transitive

3. (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.transitive

4. (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.Examples: "The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout."; "It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players."transitive

5. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.Examples: "As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out."transitive

6. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.Examples: "That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff."intransitive

name (English)

1. (by extension, archaic, colloquial) The Tattersalls horse repository and betting rooms, originally located at Hyde Park Corner.Examples: "Indeed, the whole aspect of the Corner, with its open space and green lawns, is so different from what it once was that it requires a glance at the sturdy brick wall of Buckingham Palace Gardens […] to assure the wanderer that, after all, nothing very revolutionary has occurred, and that things are much as they used to be twenty years ago."archaicbroadlycolloquial

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "corner"?

Scrabble
8 points
C3
O1
R1
N1
E1
R1
Words With Friends
10 points
C4
O1
R1
N2
E1
R1

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