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Is shard a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word shard is a Scrabble US word. The word shard is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is shard a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word shard is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

HARDS,SHARD,

4-letter words (10 found)

ARDS,DAHS,DASH,HADS,HARD,RADS,RAHS,RASH,SARD,SHAD,

3-letter words (15 found)

ADS,AHS,ARD,ARS,ASH,DAH,DAS,HAD,HAS,RAD,RAH,RAS,SAD,SAR,SHA,

2-letter words (7 found)

AD,AH,AR,AS,DA,HA,SH,

You can make 34 words from shard according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of shard

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Definitions and meaning of shard

shard

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ʃaːd/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɑːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃɑɹd/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).

The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

Alternative forms

  • sherd

Noun

shard (plural shards)

  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
    Synonym: potsherd
  2. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
    Synonym: splinter
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
      Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  4. (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
    • 1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
      "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For,[sic] within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania[sic], that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania[sic] is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan [2]
  5. (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
    Synonym: partition
  6. (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
Derived terms
  • potsherd
Translations

Verb

shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)

  1. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
  2. (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
  3. (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
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References

  • (pottery) Shard, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

Etymology 2

Noun

shard (uncountable)

  1. The plant chard.

Anagrams

  • Dhars, Hards, hards

Middle English

Noun

shard

  1. Alternative form of scherd

Source: wiktionary.org