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Is placard a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word placard is a Scrabble US word. The word placard is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is placard a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word placard is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

PLACARD,

6-letter words (2 found)

CARPAL,PARDAL,

5-letter words (3 found)

CALPA,CARAP,CRAAL,

4-letter words (21 found)

ALAP,ALAR,ARPA,CALP,CAPA,CARD,CARL,CARP,CLAD,CLAP,CRAP,DAAL,DRAC,DRAP,LARD,PAAL,PACA,PARA,PARD,PRAD,RACA,

3-letter words (22 found)

AAL,ALA,ALP,ARC,ARD,CAA,CAD,CAL,CAP,CAR,DAL,DAP,LAC,LAD,LAP,LAR,PAC,PAD,PAL,PAR,RAD,RAP,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AD,AL,AR,DA,LA,PA,

You can make 56 words from placard according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of placard

placard

Alternative forms

  • (plate): plackart, plaquet

Etymology

From Middle English placard (“official document”), from Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from the Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque +‎ -ard.

Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (“'plakat' a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplæk.ɑːd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈplæk.ɑɹd/, /ˈplæk.ɚd/

Noun

placard (plural placards)

  1. A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
  2. (obsolete) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
  3. (obsolete) Permission given by authority; a license.
    to give a placard to do something
  4. (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
  5. (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
  6. The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.

Translations

Verb

placard (third-person singular simple present placards, present participle placarding, simple past and past participle placarded)

  1. To affix a placard to.
  2. To announce with placards.

Translations

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French derivative of plaquer (“to stick, to affix”). By surface analysis, plaque +‎ -ard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pla.kaʁ/

Noun

placard m (plural placards)

  1. a cupboard, cabinet or closet built against or into a wall
  2. an advertisement that is injurious, seditious or in otherwise bad taste
  3. (dated) a placard

Usage notes

  • The use of placards for announcements by authorities having mostly disappeared, the word affiche frequently replaces it in that meaning.

Derived terms

  • sortir du placard

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • placart
  • plaquart

Noun

placard m (plural placards)

  1. placard (public written notice)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French placard.

Noun

placard m (plural placards)

  1. Alternative form of placar (“placard”)

Source: wiktionary.org