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Is strand a Scrabble word?

Yes, strand is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Wordle No
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What is the meaning of strand?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.archaicdialectalpoetic

2. (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.BritishNorthern-EnglandScotlanddialectal

verb (English)

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.Synonyms: beachtransitive

2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.Synonyms: abandon, desertfigurativelytransitive

3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.Examples: "Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair."transitive

4. (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.Examples: "We first note that wh-movement can freely strand prepositions in Icelandic, as in the other Scandinavian languages."; "In her dissertation, Goldberg (2005) offers a review of diagnostics used to identify verb-stranding VPE to that point, including tests which link the characteristics of English-style VPE (which strands an auxiliary verb) to verb-stranding VPE in languages like Hebrew and Irish."transitive

noun (English)

1. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

2. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.Examples: "By 1985, the children's strand had been renamed Children's BBC (CBBC by the mid-1990s), which continued to show animation among other programming in a dedicated time slot."

3. (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.Examples: "strand of truth"; "The explanation draws equally from other contemporary strands of political and social theory."; "She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read."figuratively

4. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

5. (Philippines, education)Philippinesformal

6. (Philippines, education)Synonyms: trackPhilippinesinformal

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).transitive

2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.transitive

name (English)

1. (as "the Strand") A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.countableuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "strand"?

Scrabble
7 points
S1
T1
R1
A1
N1
D2
Words With Friends
8 points
S1
T1
R1
A1
N2
D2

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