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Is larboard a Scrabble word?

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

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Is larboard a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is larboard a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word larboard is a Words With Friends word. The word larboard is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (2 found)

LABRADOR,LARBOARD,

6-letter words (6 found)

ABOARD,ABORAL,ABROAD,ARROBA,BORDAR,DARBAR,

5-letter words (20 found)

ABORD,ARBOR,ARDOR,AROBA,BARDO,BARRA,BARRO,BOARD,BOLAR,BORAL,BROAD,DOBLA,DOBRA,DORBA,LABDA,LABOR,LABRA,LOBAR,RADAR,RORAL,

4-letter words (31 found)

ALAR,ALBA,ALOD,ARAR,ARBA,BAAL,BALD,BARD,BLAD,BOAR,BOLA,BOLD,BORA,BORD,BRAD,BROD,DAAL,DARB,DOAB,DORB,DORR,DRAB,LARD,LOAD,LORD,ODAL,ORAD,ORAL,ORRA,ROAD,ROAR,

3-letter words (40 found)

AAL,ABA,ABO,ADO,ALA,ALB,ARB,ARD,BAA,BAD,BAL,BAO,BAR,BOA,BOD,BOR,BRA,BRO,BRR,DAB,DAL,DOB,DOL,DOR,LAB,LAD,LAR,LOB,LOD,LOR,OAR,OBA,ODA,OLD,ORA,ORB,ORD,RAD,ROB,ROD,

2-letter words (14 found)

AA,AB,AD,AL,AR,BA,BO,DA,DO,LA,LO,OB,OD,OR,

You can make 113 words from larboard according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of larboard

larboard

Etymology

From Middle English ladde-bord, latebord, most likely referring to the side of the ship on which cargo was loaded. Changed to larboard in the 16th century by association with starboard. (Texts from the 1500s have spellings like lerbord, leereboord, larboord, corresponding to how they spell sterbord, steereboord, starboord.)

Noun

larboard (usually uncountable, plural larboards)

  1. (archaic, nautical) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
    Synonyms: port, backboard, leeboard, left
    Antonym: starboard

Usage notes

  • In 1844, the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead of larboard in reference to that side of a ship; port had been used since at least the 1500s and was already the usual term when referring to the helm (ie. sailing direction), in order to avoid any confusion between starboard and larboard in such an important matter. The United States Navy followed suit in 1846.
  • Larboard continued to be common into the 1850s by whalers and others. In chapter 12 of Life on the Mississippi (1883) Mark Twain writes larboard was used to refer to the left side of the ship (Mississippi River steamboat) in his days on the river, circa 1857-1861. In his book A Dead Whale Or A Stove Boat (1967) Naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy recalls his 1912-1913 whaling voyage and mentions that the blowhole of a sperm whale is "asymmetrically located on the larboard side ('port' on a modern merchantmen, but larboard on a whaler)."

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  • Labrador, labrador

Source: wiktionary.org