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Is grid a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grid is a Scrabble US word. The word grid is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is grid a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grid is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

G2R1I1D2

Is grid a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word grid is a Words With Friends word. The word grid is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

GIRD,GRID,

3-letter words (4 found)

DIG,GID,RID,RIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

DI,GI,ID,

You can make 9 words from grid according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grid

grid rgid gird igrd rigd irgd grdi rgdi gdri dgri rdgi drgi gidr igdr gdir dgir idgr digr ridg irdg rdig drig idrg dirg

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Definitions and meaning of grid

grid

Etymology

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪd/
  • Hyphenation: grid
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

grid (plural grids)

  1. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  2. A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
  3. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
    • 1988, Die Hard (movie)
      You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
  4. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
  5. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
  6. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
  7. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
  8. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
  9. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
  10. (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.

Hyponyms

  • national grid
  • numerical grid
  • supergrid

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References

  • grid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)

  1. To mark with a grid.
  2. To assign a reference grid to.
  3. (education) To enter in a grid.
    On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.

Translations

Further reading

  • “grid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “grid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • gird

Gothic

Romanization

grid

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

grid m (plural grids)

  1. (computing) grid (system distributed computers)
  2. (motor racing) grid (starting positions of the drivers for a race)

Synonyms

  • starting positions of racers grid de largada

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grid.

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɡrɪd/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɡrid/

Noun

grid m (plural gridiau)

  1. a grid

Mutation

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “grid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Source: wiktionary.org