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You can make 19 words from bead according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bead

bead ebad baed abed eabd aebd beda ebda bdea dbea edba deba bade abde bdae dbae adbe dabe eadb aedb edab deab adeb daeb

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bead. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bead.

Definitions and meaning of bead

bead

Etymology

From Middle English bede (“a prayer”), also “a bead for counting prayers” in a peire of bedes (literally “a pair of beads”), from Old English bedu, bed, ġebed (“a request, entreaty, prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bedu, *bed, *gabed, from Proto-Germanic *bedō, *bedą.

Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

bead (plural beads)

1. (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary. [from 9^thc.]
2. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14^thc.]
3. A small, round object.
   1. A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes. [from 15^thc.]
   2. Various small, round solid objects.
   3. A small drop of water or other liquid. [from 16^thc.]

   4. A bubble, in spirits.
   5. A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
      1. (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.

4. A ridge, band, or molding.
   1. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. [from 20^thc.]
   2. (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.

      Synonym: beading

5. (chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.

Hyponyms

• (small, round, pierced object): hair pipe

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Verb

bead (third-person singular simple present beads, present participle beading, simple past and past participle beaded)

1. (intransitive) To form into a bead.

   The raindrops beaded on the car's waxed finish.

2. (transitive) To apply beads to.

   She spent the morning beading the gown.

3. (transitive) To form into a bead.

   He beaded some solder for the ends of the wire.

4. (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).

Anagrams

• Abed, abed, adeb, bade, baed

Hungarian

Etymology

be- +‎ ad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛɒd]
• Hyphenation: be‧ad
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Verb

bead

1. (transitive) to hand in

   beadja a felmondását ― to hand in one's notice

2. (transitive) to give (medicine to someone)
3. (transitive) to submit, to present (a request)
4. (transitive) to file (a petition)

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Further reading

• bead in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bead in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲɛd̪ˠ/

Verb

bead

1. first-person singular future of bí

Mutation

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæːɑ̯d/

Verb

bēad

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of bēodan