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Is braid a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word braid is a Scrabble US word. The word braid is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is braid a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word braid is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3R1A1I1D2

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5-letter words (2 found)

BRAID,RABID,

4-letter words (14 found)

ABID,ABRI,ARID,BARD,BIRD,BRAD,DARB,DARI,DRAB,DRIB,RABI,RAID,RIAD,RIBA,

3-letter words (15 found)

AID,AIR,ARB,ARD,BAD,BAR,BID,BRA,DAB,DIB,RAD,RAI,RIA,RIB,RID,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AD,AI,AR,BA,BI,DA,DI,ID,

You can make 40 words from braid according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of braid

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Definitions and meaning of braid

braid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹeɪd/
  • Homophone: brayed
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).

Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

Alternative forms

  • brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)

Verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
  3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
  4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
  5. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
Derived terms
  • French-braid
  • umbraid
  • upbraid
Translations

Noun

braid (plural braids)

  1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11th–17th c.]
  2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]
  3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
  4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
  5. (obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
  6. (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
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Further reading

  • “braid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “braid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Category:Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Adjective

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

  1. (obsolete) Deceitful.

Anagrams

  • Baird, Bardi, bidar, rabid

Gothic

Romanization

braid

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌳

Irish

Noun

braid f

  1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

braid

  1. Alternative form of breid

Source: wiktionary.org