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Is broadside a Scrabble word?

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

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Is broadside a Scrabble UK word?

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

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9-letter words (2 found)

BROADSIDE,SIDEBOARD,

8-letter words (7 found)

ADSORBED,BOARDIES,DISORBED,DISROBED,ROADBEDS,ROADSIDE,SIDEROAD,

7-letter words (22 found)

ABIDERS,ABORDED,BADDIES,BARDIES,BIDDERS,BOARDED,BORIDES,BRAIDED,BRAISED,DARBIES,DEODARS,DISROBE,DORISED,ISOBARE,RADIOED,RADIOES,ROADBED,ROADIES,SEABIRD,SIDEBAR,SODDIER,SOREDIA,

6-letter words (88 found)

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5-letter words (158 found)

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4-letter words (166 found)

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3-letter words (100 found)

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2-letter words (30 found)

AB,AD,AE,AI,AR,AS,BA,BE,BI,BO,DA,DE,DI,DO,EA,ED,ER,ES,ID,IO,IS,OB,OD,OE,OI,OR,OS,RE,SI,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 574 words from broadside according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of broadside

broadside

Etymology

broad +‎ side

Noun

broadside (plural broadsides)

  1. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
  2. (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
    • 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
      Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
  3. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
  4. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Derived terms

  • broadside ironclad
  • broadside on

Translations

Adverb

broadside (not comparable)

  1. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.

Translations

Verb

broadside (third-person singular simple present broadsides, present participle broadsiding, simple past and past participle broadsided)

  1. (transitive) To collide with something side-on.

References

  • “broadside”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “broadside”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “broadside”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

  • sideboard

Source: wiktionary.org