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Is grade a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grade is a Scrabble US word. The word grade is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is grade a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grade is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

GRADE,RADGE,RAGDE,RAGED,

4-letter words (19 found)

AGED,AGER,ARED,AREG,DARE,DARG,DEAR,DRAG,DREG,EARD,EGAD,GADE,GAED,GARE,GEAR,GRAD,RADE,RAGE,READ,

3-letter words (18 found)

AGE,ARD,ARE,DAE,DAG,DEG,EAR,ERA,ERG,GAD,GAE,GAR,GED,GER,RAD,RAG,RED,REG,

2-letter words (10 found)

AD,AE,AG,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 52 words from grade according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of grade

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Definitions and meaning of grade

grade

Etymology

Borrowed from French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”).

Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪd/
  • Homophones: grayed, greyed
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

grade (plural grades)

  1. A rating.
  2. (chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
    Synonym: mark
  3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  4. (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
  5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  6. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
  7. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  9. The level of the ground.
  10. (mathematics) A gradian.
  11. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
  12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  13. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  14. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  15. (ophthalmology, Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.

Synonyms

  • (taxon that is not a clade): paraphyletic group
  • (slope): gradient

Descendants

  • → Japanese: グレード (gurēdo)
  • → Swahili: gredi

Translations

Verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
  2. To organize in grades.
  3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
    to grade land before building on it
  4. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
  5. To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
  6. (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
  7. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
  8. (Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, garde, radge, raged

Afrikaans

Noun

grade

  1. plural of graad

Chinese

Etymology

From English grade.

Pronunciation

Noun

grade

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) grade

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

grado +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

grade

  1. gradually

Synonyms

  • malabrupte

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gradus. Compare degré.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁad/
  • Rhymes: -ad
  • Homophone: grades

Noun

grade m (plural grades)

  1. rank
  2. (geometry) gradian

Synonyms

  • degré
  • rang

Derived terms

  • en prendre pour son grade
  • monter en grade

Related terms

  • gradation
  • grader

Descendants

  • → English: grade
  • → Romanian: grad

Further reading

  • “grade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese grade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cratis, cratem (“wickerwork”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾaðe̝/

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

  1. (archaic) cage
  2. grate (metal grille)
  3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
  4. any similarly formed frame or structure
  5. common starfish (Asterias rubens)
    Synonyms: estrela do mar, rapacricas
  6. Ursa Major
    Synonyms: Carro, Osa Maior
Derived terms
  • gradar

References

  • “grade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “grade” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “grade” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “grade” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “grade” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

grade

  1. inflection of gradar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

Etymology

Contraction of gerade.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡraːdə/

Adverb

grade

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of gerade

Further reading

  • “grade” in Duden online
  • “grade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gra‧de

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grade, from Latin crātis, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *krtis.

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

  1. grate (metal grille)
  2. a light fence
  3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
  4. grid

Etymology 2

Verb

grade

  1. inflection of gradar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡrade]

Noun

grade n

  1. indefinite plural of grad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

grade (Cyrillic spelling граде)

  1. vocative singular of grad

Spanish

Verb

grade

  1. inflection of gradar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org