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Is crowd a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crowd is a Scrabble US word. The word crowd is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is crowd a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crowd is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Yes. The word crowd is a Words With Friends word. The word crowd is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

CROWD,

4-letter words (4 found)

CORD,CROW,DROW,WORD,

3-letter words (11 found)

COD,COR,COW,DOC,DOR,DOW,ORC,ORD,ROC,ROD,ROW,

2-letter words (5 found)

DO,OD,OR,OW,WO,

You can make 21 words from crowd according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crowd

crowd

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹaʊd/
  • Rhymes: -aʊd

Etymology 1

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

  1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
    Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in
  3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  4. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
  5. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  6. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  7. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  8. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Synonyms
  • becrowd (dated)
Derived terms
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Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

  1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Synonyms
  • (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
  • (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
  • (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, hoi polloi, masses, rabble, mob, tag-rag, unwashed
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
  2. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
Derived terms
  • crowder

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

References

“crowd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • c-word

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