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Is shroud a Scrabble word?

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

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Is shroud a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1H4R1O1U1D2

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Yes. The word shroud is a Words With Friends word. The word shroud is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

SHROUD,

5-letter words (5 found)

DUROS,HOURS,HURDS,SOHUR,SUDOR,

4-letter words (25 found)

DOHS,DORS,DOSH,DOUR,DUOS,DURO,DUSH,HODS,HORS,HOUR,HUSO,ORDS,OUDS,OURS,RHOS,RHUS,RODS,RUDS,RUSH,SHOD,SORD,SOUR,SURD,UDOS,URDS,

3-letter words (27 found)

DOH,DOR,DOS,DSO,DUH,DUO,HOD,HOS,ODS,OHS,ORD,ORS,OUD,OUR,OUS,RHO,ROD,RUD,SHO,SOD,SOH,SOU,SUD,SUR,UDO,UDS,URD,

2-letter words (12 found)

DO,HO,OD,OH,OR,OS,OU,SH,SO,UH,UR,US,

You can make 70 words from shroud according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of shroud

shroud

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɹaʊd/
  • Rhymes: -aʊd

Etymology 1

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  5. (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
  6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  7. (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
Synonyms
  • sindon
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Etymology 2

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

  1. To cover with a shroud.
  2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
  3. To take shelter or harbour.
Translations

Etymology 3

Variant of shred.

Noun

shroud (plural shrouds)

  1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

  1. (transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).
    Synonym: shrood

References

  • Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “shroud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “shroud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Middle English

Noun

shroud

  1. Alternative form of schroud

Source: wiktionary.org