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Is spider a Scrabble word?

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

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Is spider a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (6 found)

PRIDES,PRISED,REDIPS,RISPED,SPIDER,SPIRED,

5-letter words (24 found)

DRIES,DRIPS,EPRIS,PEDIS,PERIS,PIERS,PRIDE,PRIED,PRIES,PRISE,REDIP,RESID,RIDES,RIPED,RIPES,SIDER,SIPED,SIRED,SPEIR,SPIDE,SPIED,SPIER,SPIRE,SPRED,

4-letter words (32 found)

DEPS,DESI,DIES,DIPS,DIRE,DRIP,IDES,IRED,IRES,PEDI,PEDS,PERI,PIED,PIER,PIES,PIRS,PISE,REDS,REIS,REPS,RIDE,RIDS,RIPE,RIPS,RISE,RISP,SEIR,SIDE,SIPE,SIRE,SPED,SPIE,

3-letter words (30 found)

DEI,DEP,DIE,DIP,DIS,EDS,ERS,IDE,IDS,IRE,PED,PER,PES,PIE,PIR,PIS,PRE,PSI,RED,REI,REP,RES,RID,RIP,SED,SEI,SER,SIP,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (11 found)

DE,DI,ED,ER,ES,ID,IS,PE,PI,RE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 104 words from spider according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of spider

spider

Etymology

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: spīʹdə, IPA(key): /ˈspaɪ̯də/
  • (General American) enPR: spīʹdər, IPA(key): /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/
  • (New England, Inland Northern American, Canada) enPR: spīʹdər, IPA(key): [ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]
  • Homophone: Spyder
  • Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

  2. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
    Synonyms: (obsolete except in dialects) attercop, (obsolete) cop
  3. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
    Synonym: crawler
  4. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
    • 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
  6. (slang) A spindly person.
  7. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
  9. (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
    Synonym: bridge
  11. (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
    • 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:
      Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
    • 2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, page 193:
      In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
    • 2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
      Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.
  12. (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
    • 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, →ISBN, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:
      If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
  14. (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
  15. (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
  16. (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
  17. A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
  18. (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
  19. (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
  20. (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
  21. (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
  22. (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
  23. (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.

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Translations

Verb

spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

  1. To move like a spider.
  2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.
  3. (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

See also

  • arachnid

Further reading

  • spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • spider (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • 'spired, Prides, prides, prised, re-dips, redips, risped, spired

French

Noun

spider m (plural spiders)

  1. spyder

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English spider.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspaj.der/
  • Rhymes: -ajder

Noun

spider m (invariable)

  1. (computing) spider (Internet software)

References

Anagrams

  • sperdi

Middle English

Noun

spider

  1. Alternative form of spiþre

Source: wiktionary.org