Definitions for acorn

acorn a·corn

Spelling: [ey-kawrn, ey-kern]
IPA: /ˈeɪ kɔrn, ˈeɪ kərn/

Acorn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in acorn (acnor).

Definitions for acorn

noun

  1. the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
  2. a finial or knop, as on a piece of furniture, in the form of an acorn.

Origin of acorn

before 1000; Middle English acorne (influenced by corn1), replacing akern, Old English æcern, æcren mast, oak-mast; cognate with Old Norse akarn fruit of w

Examples for acorn

Mush of acorn meal which I had left in my pot had been eaten.

But my favorite story linked—inevitably—the navigator program to acorn.

In another variant it is an acorn which is sown under the floor.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?

These were the adopted symbols of the Vanderbilts, as “from an acorn a mighty oak shall grow.”

That would be pretty impressive, considering that acorn no longer exists as an organization.

Having planted their acorn, they expect to see it grow into an oak at once.

acorn was able to do a lot of things for low-income people, but they were stopped.

Perhaps nowhere has an acorn spin-off been as successful as one has in New York City.

We see the acorn grow into the oak, the egg into the bird, the maggot into the butterfly.

Word Value for acorn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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