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Is larder a Scrabble word?

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

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

LARDER,

5-letter words (7 found)

ALDER,ARLED,DARER,DARRE,DREAR,LADER,RARED,

4-letter words (20 found)

ARED,ARLE,DALE,DARE,DEAL,DEAR,EARD,EARL,LADE,LAER,LARD,LARE,LEAD,LEAR,RADE,RALE,RARE,READ,REAL,REAR,

3-letter words (16 found)

ALE,ARD,ARE,DAE,DAL,DEL,EAR,ELD,ERA,ERR,LAD,LAR,LEA,LED,RAD,RED,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AL,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,ER,LA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 57 words from larder according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of larder

larder

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɑː.də/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

larder (plural larders)

  1. A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]:
      He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
  2. A food supply.

Derived terms

  • larder beetle

Translations

Anagrams

  • Ardler, radler

French

Etymology

From lard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laʁ.de/

Verb

larder

  1. to lard; to smear food with lard
  2. to stab; to pierce

Conjugation

Related terms

  • lard

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • laardere, lardere, lardre, lardure, lardyr, lardyre

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman larder and continental Old French lardier, both from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /larˈdeːr/, /ˈlardər/

Noun

larder

  1. A stock of meat (originally cured pork)
  2. The place where such a stock is made and stored.
  3. (figuratively) Bloodshed, killing.

Descendants

  • English: larder
  • Middle Scots: lairder

References

  • “lā̆rder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org