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Is coward a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word coward is a Scrabble US word. The word coward is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is coward a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word coward is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word coward is a Words With Friends word. The word coward is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

COWARD,

5-letter words (3 found)

CROWD,DOWAR,DRACO,

4-letter words (17 found)

ACRO,ARCO,AROW,CARD,CODA,CORD,CRAW,CROW,DRAC,DRAW,DROW,ORAD,ORCA,ROAD,WARD,WOAD,WORD,

3-letter words (26 found)

ADO,ARC,ARD,CAD,CAR,CAW,COD,COR,COW,DAW,DOC,DOR,DOW,OAR,OCA,ODA,ORA,ORC,ORD,RAD,RAW,ROC,ROD,ROW,WAD,WAR,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AR,AW,DA,DO,OD,OR,OW,WO,

You can make 56 words from coward according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of coward

coward

Etymology

From Middle English coward, from Old French coart, cuard ( > French couard), from coue (“tail”), coe + -ard (pejorative agent noun suffix); coue, coe is in turn from Latin cauda. The reference seems to be to an animal “turning tail”, or having its tail between its legs, especially a dog. Compare the expression tail between one's legs. Unrelated to English cower. Displaced native Old English earg (survived in northern dialect English argh).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: kou'əd, IPA(key): /ˈkaʊəd/
  • (US) enPR: kou'ərd, IPA(key): /ˈkaʊɚd/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ward
  • Homophone: cowered

Noun

coward (plural cowards)

  1. A person who lacks courage.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

Synonyms

  • chicken
  • scaredy pants
  • yellowbelly
  • baby
  • big baby
  • See also Thesaurus:coward

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

coward (comparative more coward, superlative most coward)

  1. Cowardly.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
      He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
  2. (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

Verb

coward (third-person singular simple present cowards, present participle cowarding, simple past and past participle cowarded)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To intimidate.

References

  • Coward in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French coart; equivalent to Old French coe (“tail”) +‎ -ard. Compare taylarde.

Alternative forms

  • couard, couward, cowart, cowerde, coword, cuward, kowarde

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːard/, /ˈkɔu̯ard/

Noun

coward

  1. coward, knave
  2. (rare) idiot, simpleton
Related terms
  • cowardie
  • cowardise
  • cowardly
  • cowardnesse
Descendants
  • English: coward
  • Scots: cooart, coort
References
  • “cǒuard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adjective

coward

  1. cowardly
  2. (rare) stupid
Descendants
  • English: coward
References
  • “cǒuard, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

coward

  1. Alternative form of couherde

Source: wiktionary.org