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Is pride a Scrabble word?

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

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Is pride a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (4 found)

PRIDE,PRIED,REDIP,RIPED,

4-letter words (9 found)

DIRE,DRIP,IRED,PEDI,PERI,PIED,PIER,RIDE,RIPE,

3-letter words (16 found)

DEI,DEP,DIE,DIP,IDE,IRE,PED,PER,PIE,PIR,PRE,RED,REI,REP,RID,RIP,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DI,ED,ER,ID,PE,PI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 38 words from pride according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pride

pride

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹaɪd/, [ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪd]
  • Rhymes: -aɪd
  • Homophone: pried

Etymology 1

From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.

Alternative forms

  • pryde (obsolete)

Noun

pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)

  1. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.
  2. (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.
    • 1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
      The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
  3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
    Synonyms: disdain, hubris
  4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
  5. Show; ostentation; glory.
  6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
  7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
  8. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
  9. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
  10. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.
Synonyms
  • (a reasonable sense of one's own worth): dignity, self-esteem; See also Thesaurus:pride
  • (an excessive sense of one's own worth): arrogance, conceit, disdain; See also Thesaurus:arrogance
  • (lust; sexual desire): See also Thesaurus:lust
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “a reasonable sense of one's own worth”): shame, humiliation, self-pity
  • (antonym(s) of “an excessive sense of one's own worth”): humility, modesty
Derived terms
Related terms
  • proud
Translations
See also
  • clowder, company of small felines

Verb

pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)

  2. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
Derived terms
  • prided
  • priding
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pryde, from Middle Low German lampride, from Medieval Latin lampreda.

Noun

pride (uncountable)

  1. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
    Synonyms: prid, sandpiper
Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pride”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • redip, re-dip, Pider, Pedir, riped, pried

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

pride

  1. Alternative form of pryde (“proudness”)

Etymology 2

Verb

pride

  1. Alternative form of pryden

Source: wiktionary.org