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Is read a Scrabble word?

Yes, read is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of read?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.Examples: "Have you read this book?"; "He doesn’t like to read."; "During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]"Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scanintransitivetransitive

2. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.Examples: "Arabic reads right to left."; "That sentence reads strangely."Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scanergativeintransitivetransitive

3. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.Examples: "At the moment I'm reading Milton."Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scanintransitivemetonymicallytransitive

4. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)Examples: "He read us a passage from his new book."; "All right, class, who wants to read next?"; "In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned."Synonyms: read aloud, read out, read out loud, speakintransitivetransitive

5. (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.Examples: "She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water."; "I can read his feelings in his face."transitive

6. (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.Examples: "In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron."; "The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […]"Synonyms: sic proergative

noun (English)

1. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.Examples: "His thrillers are always a gripping read."in-compounds

2. (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).Examples: "[As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact].""; "Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read."; "I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […]."

3. (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "read"?

Scrabble
5 points
R1
E1
A1
D2
Words With Friends
5 points
R1
E1
A1
D2

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