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

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

MADDER,

5-letter words (10 found)

ADDER,ADRED,AREDD,ARMED,DARED,DERMA,DREAD,DREAM,MADRE,READD,

4-letter words (17 found)

ARED,DAME,DARE,DEAD,DEAR,DERM,DRAD,DRAM,EARD,MADE,MARD,MARE,MEAD,RADE,READ,REAM,REDD,

3-letter words (19 found)

ADD,AME,ARD,ARE,ARM,DAD,DAE,DAM,EAR,ERA,ERM,MAD,MAE,MAR,MED,RAD,RAM,RED,REM,

2-letter words (13 found)

AD,AE,AM,AR,DA,DE,EA,ED,EM,ER,MA,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 61 words from madder according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of madder

madder

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmædə(ɹ)/, [ˈmadə(ɹ)]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmædɚ/, [ˈmæɾɚ]
  • Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *modʰro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modrъ (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).

Noun

madder (countable and uncountable, plural madders)

  1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
  2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
  3. A dye made from the plant.
  4. A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
Synonyms
  • (Rubia tinctorum): common madder, dyer's madder
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Adjective

madder (not comparable)

  1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
Translations

Verb

madder (third-person singular simple present madders, present participle maddering, simple past and past participle maddered)

  1. (transitive, rare) To dye with madder.

See also

  • bedstraw
  • bluet
  • genipap
  • Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

  1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From Irish meadar.

Noun

madder (plural madders)

  1. Obsolete form of mether.
    • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":
      Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
      A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
      O there is the sport! […]

References

  • Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

Etymology 4

Verb

madder (third-person singular simple present madders, present participle maddering, simple past and past participle maddered)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of matter.

Anagrams

  • MedDRA, dermad, dream'd, marded

Middle English

Adjective

madder

  1. comparative degree of mad

Source: wiktionary.org