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sour

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Is sour a Scrabble word?

Yes, sour is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 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 sour?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.Examples: "He gave me a sour look."; "He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer."

2. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.Examples: "Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music)."

noun (English)

1. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.broadlycountableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make sour.Examples: "Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe."transitive

2. (intransitive) To become sour.Examples: "So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours."intransitive

3. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.Examples: "To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead."; "He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet."transitive

4. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.Examples: "We broke up after our relationship soured."intransitive

5. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.Examples: "stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil"transitive

6. (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "sour"?

Scrabble
4 points
S1
O1
U1
R1
Words With Friends
5 points
S1
O1
U2
R1

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