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Is dern a Scrabble word?

Yes, dern is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of dern?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A secret; secrecy.obsolete

2. (obsolete) A secret place; hiding.obsolete

3. (obsolete) An obscure language.obsolete

4. (obsolete) Darkness; obscurity.obsolete

adj (English)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.Examples: "Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit."; "Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern."dialectalobsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.Examples: "He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth."obsoletetransitive

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk.Examples: "But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne."intransitiveobsolete

noun (English)

1. (UK) A gatepost or doorpost.Examples: "1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings So I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]"UK

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "dern"?

Scrabble
5 points
D2
E1
R1
N1
Words With Friends
6 points
D2
E1
R1
N2

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