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Is lewd a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lewd is a Scrabble US word. The word lewd is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

L1E1W4D2

Is lewd a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lewd is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

L1E1W4D2

Is lewd a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word lewd is a Words With Friends word. The word lewd is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

LEWD,WELD,

3-letter words (6 found)

DEL,DEW,ELD,LED,LEW,WED,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EL,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from lewd according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lewd

lewd elwd lwed wled ewld weld ledw eldw ldew dlew edlw delw lwde wlde ldwe dlwe wdle dwle ewdl wedl edwl dewl wdel dwel

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lewd. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lewd.

Definitions and meaning of lewd

lewd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ljuːd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /lud/
  • enPR: lo͞od
  • Rhymes: -uːd
  • Homophone: leud

Adjective

lewd (comparative lewder, superlative lewdest)

  1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
    Synonym: lubricious
  2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
  3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
      For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
      But my learning is of another degree
      To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
  4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
  5. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
Derived terms
  • lewdly
  • lewdness
  • lewdster
Translations

Noun

lewd (plural lewds)

  1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
Derived terms

Verb

lewd (third-person singular simple present lewds, present participle lewding, simple past and past participle lewded)

  1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Etymology 2

Verb

lewd (third-person singular simple present lewds, present participle lewding, simple past and past participle lewded)

  1. (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”)

Anagrams

  • WLED, Weld, weld

Middle English

Adjective

lewd

  1. Alternative form of lewed

Source: wiktionary.org