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Is woad a Scrabble word?

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

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Is woad a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word woad is a Words With Friends word. The word woad is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

WOAD,

3-letter words (5 found)

ADO,DAW,DOW,ODA,WAD,

2-letter words (7 found)

AD,AW,DA,DO,OD,OW,WO,

You can make 13 words from woad according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of woad

woad owad waod awod oawd aowd woda owda wdoa dwoa odwa dowa wado awdo wdao dwao adwo dawo oadw aodw odaw doaw adow daow

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Definitions and meaning of woad

woad

Etymology

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wəʊd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /woʊd/
  • Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

woad (usually uncountable, plural woads)

  1. (countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.
  2. (countable and uncountable) The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.

Synonyms

  • (the plant): glastum, Isatis tinctoria
  • (the blue dye): indigo, indigotin

Derived terms

  • dyer's woad
  • woaden
  • woader
  • woad-waxen

Translations

Verb

woad (third-person singular simple present woads, present participle woading, simple past and past participle woaded)

  1. To plant or cultivate woad.
  2. To dye with woad.

Derived terms

  • woader
  • woadster

Further reading

  • Isatis tinctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Isatis tinctoria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Isatis tinctoria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Source: wiktionary.org