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Is burden a Scrabble word?

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

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Is burden a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (3 found)

BURDEN,BURNED,UNBRED,

5-letter words (9 found)

BUNDE,DEBUR,NUDER,REDUB,RUNED,UNBED,UNDER,UNRED,URNED,

4-letter words (24 found)

BEDU,BEND,BRED,BREN,BUND,BURD,BURN,DERN,DRUB,DUNE,DURE,DURN,NERD,NUDE,NURD,REND,RUBE,RUDE,RUED,RUND,RUNE,UNBE,UNDE,URDE,

3-letter words (28 found)

BED,BEN,BRU,BUD,BUN,BUR,DEB,DEN,DUB,DUE,DUN,END,ERN,NEB,NED,NUB,NUR,REB,RED,REN,RUB,RUD,RUE,RUN,URB,URD,URE,URN,

2-letter words (10 found)

BE,DE,ED,EN,ER,NE,NU,RE,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from burden according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of burden

burden

Etymology 1

From Middle English burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from Old English byrden, byrþen, from Proto-West Germanic *burþini, from *burþī, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).

Alternative forms

  • burthen (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɜːdn̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɝdn̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dən

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

  1. A heavy load.
  2. A responsibility, onus.
  3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
    • c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift, The Dean's Complaint Translated and Answered
      Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
  4. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
  5. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
  6. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
  7. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
  8. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
    […] that bore thee at a burden two fair sons.
  9. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
Translations

Verb

burden (third-person singular simple present burdens, present participle burdening, simple past and past participle burdened)

  1. (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
  2. (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English burdoun (“accompaniment”), from Old French bordon (“drone”), from Medieval Latin burdō. Doublet of bourdon.

Noun

burden (plural burdens)

  2. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
  3. The drone of a bagpipe.
  4. Theme, core idea.

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Anagrams

  • bunder, burned, unbred

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

burden

  1. Alternative form of borden

Etymology 2

From burde +‎ -en (plural ending).

Noun

burden

  1. plural of burde

West Frisian

Noun

burden

  1. plural of burd

Source: wiktionary.org