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Is yellow a Scrabble word?

Yes, yellow is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of yellow?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.Synonyms: amberUScountableuncountable

2. (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.countableuncountable

3. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).countableuncountable

4. (sports) A yellow card.Examples: "Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated."countableuncountable

adj (English)

1. (informal) Lacking courage.Examples: "What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it."; "You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!"Synonyms: cowardlyinformal

2. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.Examples: "The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco."

3. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.Examples: "They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese."derogatoryethnicoffensiveslur

4. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).Examples: "Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man."; "The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp."derogatoryethnicoffensiveslur

5. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.Examples: ""Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?"."; "A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.”"Australiadatedoffensive

6. (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow.Examples: "Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself."Synonyms: high yellowUSdated

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.Examples: "Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath."; "Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]"intransitive

2. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or yellower.transitive

intj (English)

1. (BDSM, procedure word) Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.

This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "yellow"?

Scrabble
12 points
Y4
E1
L1
L1
O1
W4
Words With Friends
13 points
Y4
E1
L2
L2
O1
W4

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