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Is marrow a Scrabble word?

Yes, marrow is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 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 marrow?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.Examples: "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."; "Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert"uncountable

2. (figurative) The essence; the best part.Examples: "It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith and marrow of our attribute."; "I cannot commend , with theefe of his marrow, for feare of ill end"Synonyms: crux, gist, bowels, brass tacks, core, crux, essence, gistcountablefigurativelyuncountable

3. (figurative) The inner meaning or purpose.countablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (countable, medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.Examples: "This patient will have a marrow today."; "I was chilled to the marrow."colloquialcountable

5. (uncountable, obsolete) Semen.Examples: "Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed."obsoleteuncountable

noun (English)

1. (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.Examples: "Cheers marrow!"Geordieinformal

2. (mining, slang, obsolete) A miner's mate or assistant.Examples: "A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated, […] but out of this sum, his "marrows" or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid […]"obsoleteslang

3. (Scotland or archaic) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.Examples: "The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle my morrowe. / The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe."; "The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no his marrow left in the toun."Scotlandarchaic

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "marrow"?

Scrabble
11 points
M3
A1
R1
R1
O1
W4
Words With Friends
12 points
M4
A1
R1
R1
O1
W4

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