caribou
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of caribou
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (error-lua-timeout)Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.
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noun
- (error-lua-timeout)Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.
name
- A rural area of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
- A ghost town in Boulder County, Colorado.
- A city in Aroostook County, Maine.
- A township and unincorporated community in Kittson County, Minnesota.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”; compare qalipi, “to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou”, literally “it shovels snow”).
Words you can make from caribou
73 playable · top: BORICUA (11 pts)
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13 words4-letter words
19 words3-letter words
32 words- CAB 7 pts
- COB 7 pts
- CUB 7 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BIO 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- BRO 5 pts
- BUR 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- CRU 5 pts
- CUR 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBI 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- ORB 5 pts
- ORC 5 pts
- RIB 5 pts
- ROB 5 pts
- ROC 5 pts
- RUB 5 pts
- URB 5 pts
- AIR 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- RAI 3 pts
- RIA 3 pts
2-letter words
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