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Is doctor a Scrabble word?

Yes, doctor is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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

What is the meaning of doctor?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.Examples: "So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries."; "one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel"obsolete

2. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.Examples: "the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter"; "the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine""; "The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash."dated

3. (obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.Examples: "[…] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]"; "His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”"obsoleteslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.Examples: "Her children doctored her back to health."transitive

2. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.Examples: "2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck. Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!"humorousintransitive

3. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.transitive

4. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.Examples: "They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick."; "We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido."transitive

5. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.Examples: "Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored."transitive

6. (transitive, figurative) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.Examples: "To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery."; "That picture – the one that Andrew claimed on BBC’s Newsnight might have been doctored, since he had “no recollection” of then or ever meeting Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in London – will likely serve as both a prequel and postscript of the saga."; "Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated."figurativelytransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "doctor"?

Scrabble
9 points
D2
O1
C3
T1
O1
R1
Words With Friends
10 points
D2
O1
C4
T1
O1
R1

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