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Is ford a Scrabble word?

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

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Is ford a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

FORD,

3-letter words (7 found)

DOF,DOR,FOR,FRO,ORD,ORF,ROD,

2-letter words (4 found)

DO,OD,OF,OR,

You can make 12 words from ford according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ford

ford ofrd frod rfod orfd rofd fodr ofdr fdor dfor odfr dofr frdo rfdo fdro dfro rdfo drfo ordf rodf odrf dorf rdof drof

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

Definitions and meaning of ford

ford

Alternative forms

  • foorth (obsolete, [14th century])

Etymology

From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian پل.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɔːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fɔɹd/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹd/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foəd/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

ford (plural fords)

  1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
  2. A stream; a current.

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Verb

ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)

  1. To cross a stream using a ford.
    • 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, [2]
      Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.

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Anagrams

  • dorf

Old Cornish

Etymology

from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz

Noun

ford

  1. way

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”). Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ford/, [forˠd]

Noun

ford m

  1. ford

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: ford, furd, foord
    • English: ford
    • Scots: furde, furd, fuird
  • ⇒ English: Chelmsford (from a contraction of Ċēolmǣres + ford)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *forð (“road”) (see there for further descendants)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔrd/

Noun

ford

  1. Soft mutation of bord.

Mutation


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