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Is brace a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word brace is a Scrabble US word. The word brace is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is brace a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word brace is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

ACERB,BRACE,CABER,CABRE,

4-letter words (10 found)

ABER,ACER,ACRE,BARE,BEAR,BRAE,CARB,CARE,CRAB,RACE,

3-letter words (14 found)

ACE,ARB,ARC,ARE,BAC,BAE,BAR,BRA,CAB,CAR,EAR,ERA,REB,REC,

2-letter words (8 found)

AB,AE,AR,BA,BE,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from brace according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of brace

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Definitions and meaning of brace

brace

Etymology

From Middle English brace, from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, the nominative and accusative plural of bracchium (“arm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹeɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Noun

brace (plural braces)

  1. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
  2. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
  3. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
  4. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
  5. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
  6. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
  7. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
  8. Harness; warlike preparation.
  9. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
  10. (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
  11. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
  12. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
  13. (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
  14. (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
  15. (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
  16. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.

Synonyms

  • (measure of length representing a person's outstretched arms): fathom
  • (pair, couple): dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brace (third-person singular simple present braces, present participle bracing, simple past and past participle braced)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
  2. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
  3. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
  4. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
  5. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
  6. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
  7. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
  8. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

Synonyms

  • (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Derived terms

  • brace up

Translations

Related terms

  • brace aback
  • brace about
  • brace abox
  • brace by
  • brace in
  • brace oneself
  • brace sharp
  • brace of shakes

Anagrams

  • acerb, caber, cabre, cabré

Italian

Alternative forms

  • brage, bragia, bracia (archaic or regional)

Etymology

Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with French braise (“embers”), Swedish brasa (“to roast”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). Most probably cognate to Sanskrit भ्रज (bhrája, “fire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbra.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Hyphenation: brà‧ce

Noun

brace f (plural braci)

  1. (usually in the plural) embers
    Carne alla brace ― grilled meat (literally, “meat [cooked] to the ember”)

Derived terms

  • braciaio
  • braciaiola
  • braciere
  • bracino
  • braciola

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French brace, from Latin bracchia, plural of bracchium.

Alternative forms

  • brase, braas, bras

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbraːs(ə)/

Noun

brace (uncountable)

  1. Vambrace; armour which protects the arm.
  2. A cord or brace for fastening or attaching things to something.
  3. A group or set of two dogs or canines.
  4. Wood used as a buttress or support for building.
  5. (rare) A support or buttress used in other applications.
  6. (rare) A kind of riding equipment or horse tack.
  7. (rare) A peninsula; a cape or slice of land jutting into the sea.
  8. (rare) A perch (unit of measure)
  9. (rare) A point of a cross or rood.
Derived terms
  • bracen
  • bracer
  • brasyng
  • rerebrace
  • vambrace
Descendants
  • English: brace
  • Scots: brace
References
  • “brāce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

Etymology 2

Verb

brace

  1. Alternative form of bracen

Etymology 3

Noun

brace

  1. Alternative form of bras

Old French

Etymology

From Latin brachia, bracchia, originally the plural of bracchium.

Noun

brace oblique singular, f (oblique plural braces, nominative singular brace, nominative plural braces)

  1. arm (limb)

Related terms

  • bras

Descendants

  • → Middle English: brace, brase, braas, bras
    • English: brace
    • Scots: brace

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (brace)

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • braci

Etymology

Inherited from Latin brācae, plural of brāca.

Noun

brace f pl (plural only)

  1. (rare, Bukovina) underwear, undergarments, drawers, unmentionables
    Synonyms: indispensabili, chiloți, izmene

Declension

Related terms

  • îmbrăca

Source: wiktionary.org