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Is harden a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word harden is a Scrabble US word. The word harden is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

H4A1R1D2E1N1

Is harden a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word harden is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

H4A1R1D2E1N1

Is harden a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word harden is a Words With Friends word. The word harden is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3A1R1D2E1N2

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6-letter words (2 found)

HANDER,HARDEN,

5-letter words (6 found)

DEARN,DENAR,HARED,HEARD,RAHED,REDAN,

4-letter words (31 found)

AHED,ARED,DARE,DARN,DEAN,DEAR,DERN,EARD,EARN,HADE,HAED,HAEN,HAND,HARD,HARE,HARN,HEAD,HEAR,HEND,HERD,HERN,NARD,NARE,NEAR,NERD,RADE,RAND,READ,REAN,REND,RHEA,

3-letter words (28 found)

AND,ANE,ARD,ARE,DAE,DAH,DAN,DEN,EAN,EAR,EDH,END,ERA,ERN,HAD,HAE,HAN,HEN,HER,NAE,NAH,NED,RAD,RAH,RAN,RED,REH,REN,

2-letter words (17 found)

AD,AE,AH,AN,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,EH,EN,ER,HA,HE,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 85 words from harden according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of harden

harden

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdn̩/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdn̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
  • Hyphenation: hard‧en

Etymology 1

From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard +‎ -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).

Verb

harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened)

  1. (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
  2. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
  3. (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
  4. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
    Synonym: inure
    • KJV, Exodus 4:21
      When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
  6. (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
  7. (transitive, intransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
  8. (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
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Etymology 2

Noun

harden (countable and uncountable, plural hardens)

  1. Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”)

Anagrams

  • Harned, Hendra, hander

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑrdən

Verb

harden

  1. (transitive) To render hard(er), more resistant etc.; to temper metal; to steel nerves
  2. (transitive) to endure, bear, stand, tolerate

Inflection

Synonyms

  • (to endure) uithouden, verdragen

Noun

harden

  1. plural of harde

Source: wiktionary.org