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Is board a Scrabble word?

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

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What is the meaning of board?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) Regular meals in a place of lodging; the price paid for them.Examples: "board and lodging"; "room and board"; "His board was served by his landlady, the owner of the boarding house. [meals]"uncountable

2. (nautical) The side of a ship.Examples: "Now board to board the rival vessels row."countableuncountable

3. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.countableuncountable

4. (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.countablein-pluraloftenuncountable

5. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.Examples: "Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand."; "1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481. The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board."; "“Take your seat at my board, and let me drink to your health.”"archaiccountableuncountable

6. (video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.Examples: "The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]"; "You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies."countableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.Examples: "It is time to board the aircraft."; "You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication."; "Yuan-chu-min history, that of the island’s southern Min speaking Han Chinese, is in evidence farther east, in Nan-t'ou county. After reaching the heart of Nan-t'ou' city, the county’s center of government and also home to Taiwan’s provincial government, one can board a bus to ascend the mountains that dominate much of the central and eastern landscape of the island."Antonyms: alight, disembarktransitive

2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.Examples: "to board one’s horse at a livery stable"transitive

3. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.Examples: "We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,"transitive

4. (transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.transitive

5. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensationintransitive

6. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.Examples: "Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]"archaictransitive

noun (English)

1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.informal

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "board"?

Scrabble
8 points
B3
O1
A1
R1
D2
Words With Friends
9 points
B4
O1
A1
R1
D2

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