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You can make 30 words from sword according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sword

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Definitions and meaning of sword

sword

Alternative forms

• swerd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): [sɔːd]
• (Standard Southern British, MLE) IPA^(key): [soːd]
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): [soːɹd]
• (General American, Scotland) IPA^(key): [sɔɹd],
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /so(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /soəd/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /swɔːrd/
• Homophone: soared; sawed (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

sword (plural swords)

1. (weaponry) A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
2. (card games) A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
3. (card games) A card of this suit.
4. (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Coordinate terms

• (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, dagger, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ソード

Translations

Verb

sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)

1. To stab or cut with a sword

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• swerd, sord, sworde, zuord

Etymology

From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swɔrd/, /swoːrd/
• (from sweord) IPA^(key): /swɛrd/, /s(w)urd/

Noun

sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)

1. sword, sabre
2. (figuratively) Military might or power.

Descendants

• English: sword
• Scots: swerd, sword

References

• “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sword/, [sworˠd]

Noun

sword n (nominative plural sword) (Mercian)

1. Alternative form of sweord