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Is beard a Scrabble word?

Yes, beard is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of beard?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.Examples: "the beard of grain"

2. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.dated

3. (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.Examples: "To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”."slang

4. (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.Examples: "What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard."slang

5. (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.Examples: "One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer."; "Charlotte: Smith is not gay. Miranda: Of course not. Charlotte: So this makes you his beard."; "In an interview with Net a Porter, Delevingne said that “one of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman – get a beard.’”"slang

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.intransitiveobsolete

2. (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.Examples: "Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham."; "Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?"; "No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial."transitive

3. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.transitive

4. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.transitive

5. (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.intransitive

6. (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.Examples: "Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]"; "Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it."ambitransitiveslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "beard"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "beard"?

Scrabble
8 points
B3
E1
A1
R1
D2
Words With Friends
9 points
B4
E1
A1
R1
D2

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