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Is breed a Scrabble word?

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

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Is breed a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

BREDE,BREED,

4-letter words (12 found)

BEDE,BEER,BERE,BRED,BREE,DEBE,DEER,DERE,DREE,ERED,REDE,REED,

3-letter words (8 found)

BED,BEE,DEB,DEE,ERE,REB,RED,REE,

2-letter words (6 found)

BE,DE,ED,EE,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from breed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of breed

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

Definitions and meaning of breed

breed

Alternative forms

  • breede (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Dutch broeden, German Low German bröden, German brüten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹiːd/
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)

  1. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  2. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
  3. Of animals, to mate.
  4. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
  5. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
  6. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
  7. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
  8. To yield or result in.
  9. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
  10. (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
  11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
  12. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
  13. (transitive) To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate.
    • 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive
      “God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”
    • year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand (→ISBN), page 32:
      “Then...you get...bred.”

Synonyms

  • (take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

Related terms

  • breed in the bone

Translations

Noun

breed (plural breeds)

  1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
  2. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
  3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
  4. (derogatory) Ellipsis of half-breed.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • berde, brede, rebed

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch breed, from Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brɪə̯t/

Adjective

breed (attributive breë, comparative breër, superlative breedste)

  1. broad

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brêet, from Old Dutch *brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /breːt/, [breːt], [breɪ̯t], [bʀ-]
  • Hyphenation: breed
  • Rhymes: -eːt

Adjective

breed (comparative breder, superlative breedst)

  1. broad, wide
    Antonyms: nauw, smal
  2. large, ample

Inflection

Derived terms

  • breedband
  • breedbeeld
  • breedbekstrandloper
  • breeddoek
  • breedgebouwd
  • breedgerand
  • breedgeschouderd
  • breedgetakt
  • breedgetakt
  • breedheid
  • breedlipneushoorn
  • breedspraak
  • breedstaartkolibrie
  • breedte
  • breedvoerig
  • hemelsbreed
  • kamerbreed
  • verbreden

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: breed
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: brete
  • Negerhollands: breed
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bradi (via Sranan Tongo)
  • → West Frisian: breed

Anagrams

  • brede

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

breed

  1. Alternative form of brede (“breadth”)

Etymology 2

Noun

breed

  1. Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian brēd, from Proto-West Germanic *braid. Cognates include West Frisian brie and German breit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /breːd/
  • Hyphenation: breed
  • Rhymes: -eːd

Adjective

breed (masculine breeden, feminine, plural or definite breede, comparative brader, superlative breedst, braadst)

  1. wide

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "wide"): smäl

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “breed”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch breed, displacing older brie.

Adjective

breed

  1. broad, wide

Inflection

Derived terms

  • breedteken

Further reading

  • “breed”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English breed, from Old English brēad, from Proto-Germanic *braudą. Cognates include English bread and Scots breid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɾiːd/
  • Homophone: breede

Noun

breed

  1. bread

References


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