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Is wide a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wide a Scrabble UK word?

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

WEID,WIDE,

3-letter words (5 found)

DEI,DEW,DIE,IDE,WED,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,DI,ED,EW,ID,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from wide according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wide

wide iwde wdie dwie idwe diwe wied iwed weid ewid iewd eiwd wdei dwei wedi ewdi dewi edwi idew diew iedw eidw deiw ediw

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Definitions and meaning of wide

wide

Etymology

From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) +‎ *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).

Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /waɪd/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /wɑed/
  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Adjective

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
  8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
    a wide character; a wide stream
  10. (British, slang) Antagonistic, shrewd, unscrupulous, provocative.

Antonyms

  • narrow (regarding empty area)
  • thin (regarding occupied area)
  • skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • width

Translations

References

  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Adverb

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

  1. extensively
  2. completely
  3. away from or to one side of a given goal
  4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Derived terms

  • wide-ranging

Translations

Noun

wide (plural wides)

  1. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Old English

Etymology

wīd +‎ -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiː.de/

Adverb

wīde

  1. widely, afar, far and wide
    wīdfērende ― coming from afar

Source: wiktionary.org