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Is minor a Scrabble word?

Yes, minor is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

adj (English)

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "of minor importance"; "a minor poet"; "Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio."

2. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children."

3. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "She suffered a minor injury."; "There was minor bruising."; "He has a minor case of puppy love."figurativelysometimes

4. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third."; "...a certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism..."

5. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout."; "The minor mode of D is tender."; "The first chorus: ‘Behold the Lamb of God’, with its dark minor chords, brings threatening clouds over us."

6. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:Examples: "The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes."CanadaUS

noun (English)

1. (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.Examples: "No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract."; "He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony."; "King Richard the second... for the first tenne yeares of his raigne, was a Minor."

2. (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

3. (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.Examples: "I got a minor in English Lit."CanadaUS

4. (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.Examples: "I became an English minor."CanadaUSuncommon

5. (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.Examples: "...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero..."; "Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r."

6. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.Examples: "He... to þe menours ordre went"alt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "minor"?

Scrabble
7 points
M3
I1
N1
O1
R1
Words With Friends
9 points
M4
I1
N2
O1
R1

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