FreeScrabbleDictionary

differ

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈdɪfə/
See all 2 pronunciations
/ˈdɪfə/ · /ˈdɪfɚ/

Definition of differ

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
    “When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.”
    “These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.”
See all 4 definitions

verb

  1. (intransitive)Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
    “When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.”
    “These shoes only differ from those ones in having slightly longer laces.”
  2. (intransitive)Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
    “The numbers 3 and 21 differ by 18.”
  3. (intransitive, usually)Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct.
    “May 11, 1827, George Canning, Changes in the Administration I differ from the honourable baronet on both these subjects”
    “Historical interpretation has differed over the role played by the king of Denmark and Norway in the impignoration of the islands.”

noun

  1. A program that diffs, a diff.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin differō Old French differerbor. Middle English differren English differ From Middle…

See full etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin differō Old French differerbor. Middle English differren English differ From Middle English differren, from Old French differer, from Latin differō (“carry apart, put off, defer; differ”), from dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”). Compare Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō). Doublet of defer and dilate, see also infer, confer and collate, refer and relate, as well as prefer and prelate among others.

Anagrams of differ

1 play · all valid Scrabble

Words you can make from differ

40 playable · top: RIFFED (13 pts)

Best play riffed 13 points

5-letter words

4 words

4-letter words

11 words

3-letter words

16 words

2-letter words

8 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to differ to make another valid word.

Back

Find your best play with differ

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes differ, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists