Definitions for Rumor

Rumor ru·mor

Spelling: [roo-mer]
IPA: /ˈru mər/

Rumor 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 25 anagrams from letters in Rumor (morru).

Definitions for Rumor

noun

  1. a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts:
  2. gossip; hearsay:
  3. Archaic. a continuous, confused noise; clamor; din.

verb (used with object)

  1. to circulate, report, or assert by a rumor:

Origin of Rumor

1325-75; Middle English rumour Middle French Latin rūmor; akin to Sanskrit rāuti, rāvati (he) cries

Examples for Rumor

Thus the rumor as well as the reality of the threat is used for intimidation.

That morning a rumor had reached the village of a famine in the island of Crete.

Indeed there was rumor that white travelers had seen them north of Mexico.

The rumor of the threatened attack on the spread was known to all the nine now.

We had paused to recuperate our animals, and there was a rumor that we were to get new clothing.

He does, however, attempt to dispel some of the myths that have emerged from hearsay and rumor over the last century.

They were built upon high cliffs and rumor had it that no enemy could take them.

But the rumor that House Republicans were cutting funding for Ebola had already taken off.

A rumor of Angels: Quotations for Living, Dying and Letting Goby Gail Perry Johnson and Jill Perry Rabideau.

Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.

Word Value for Rumor
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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