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Yes. The word accolade is a Scrabble US word. The word accolade is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word accolade is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

ACCOLADE,

7-letter words (1 found)

CLOACAE,

6-letter words (6 found)

ALCADE,CAECAL,CALCED,CLOACA,COALED,COLEAD,

5-letter words (14 found)

ACOLD,ALDEA,ALOED,CAAED,CACAO,CAECA,CECAL,CLADE,COALA,CODEC,COLED,DECAL,DOLCE,LACED,

4-letter words (41 found)

ACCA,ACED,ALAE,ALCO,ALEC,ALOD,ALOE,CACA,CADE,CALO,CECA,CLAD,CLOD,COAL,COCA,CODA,CODE,COED,COLA,COLD,COLE,DAAL,DACE,DALE,DEAL,DECO,DELO,DOLE,ECAD,ECCO,ECOD,LACE,LADE,LEAD,LOAD,LOCA,LODE,ODAL,ODEA,OLDE,OLEA,

3-letter words (29 found)

AAL,ACE,ADO,ALA,ALE,CAA,CAD,CAL,CEL,COD,COL,DAE,DAL,DEL,DOC,DOE,DOL,ECO,ELD,LAC,LAD,LEA,LED,LOD,OCA,ODA,ODE,OLD,OLE,

2-letter words (14 found)

AA,AD,AE,AL,DA,DE,DO,EA,ED,EL,LA,LO,OD,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 107 words from accolade according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of accolade

accolade

Etymology

  • First attested in the 1620s.
  • (award, praise): First attested in 1852.
  • Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈæk.ə.ˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.ə.ˈlɑd/

Noun

accolade (plural accolades)

  1. An expression of approval; praise.
  2. A special acknowledgment; an award.
  3. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
  4. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
  5. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
  6. (US) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
  7. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
  8. Synonym of curly bracket

Synonyms

  • (expression of approval or praise): panegyric

Related terms

  • collar

Translations

References

  • (4) https://web.archive.org/web/20060209015723/http://www.afms1.belvoir.army.mil/dictionary/a.htm#accolade

Verb

accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)

  1. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
  2. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
  3. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
    an accoladed novel

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French accolade.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑkoːˈlaːdə/
  • Hyphenation: ac‧co‧la‧de

Noun

accolade f (plural accolades, diminutive accoladetje n)

  1. (punctuations) brace, curly bracket ({ })
  2. anything that resembles the above

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French acolade, from Old French acolee (remade with the suffix -ade), from the verb acoler.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kɔ.lad/
  • Homophone: accolades
  • Hyphenation: ac‧co‧lade

Noun

accolade f (plural accolades)

  1. curly bracket (brace)
  2. (historical) accolade (knights)
  3. embrace
    Synonym: embrassade

Descendants

  • → Danish: akkolade
  • → German: Akkolade

Verb

accolade

  1. inflection of accolader:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “accolade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org