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Is hard a Scrabble word?

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

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What is the meaning of hard?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.Examples: "Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain."

2. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.Examples: "This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it."Synonyms: resistant, solid, stonyAntonyms: soft

3. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.Synonyms: strongAntonyms: low-alcohol

4. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.Examples: "hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda"; "Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […]."Antonyms: alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic

5. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.Examples: "While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines."

6. (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.

adv (English)

1. (manner) With much force or effort.Examples: "He hit the puck hard up the ice."; "They worked hard all week."; "The recession hit them especially hard."

2. (manner) With difficulty.Examples: "His degree was hard earned."

3. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.Examples: "The question is hard set."obsolete

4. (manner) Compactly.Examples: "The lake had finally frozen hard."

5. (now archaic) Near, close.Examples: "At the intersection, bear hard left."; "The King your brother is now hard at hand, / Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders / Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands / And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea."; "[…]whose house joined hard to the synagogue."archaic

noun (English)

1. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.Examples: "The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]"countable

2. (countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.countable

3. (uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.slanguncountable

4. (uncountable, slang) Hard labor.Examples: "The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard."slanguncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make hard, harden.Examples: "He knows vain men: he sees their harts that hard them In Guiles and Wiles, and will not hee regard them?"obsoletetransitive

adj (English)

1. (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: heartfelt, animated, required, difficult.Examples: "Unlike achievable and realistic goals that leave you stuck in the status-quo, HARD Goals light up the brain and encourage great performance."mnemonicnot-comparable

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "hard"?

Scrabble
8 points
H4
A1
R1
D2
Words With Friends
7 points
H3
A1
R1
D2

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