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Is thread a Scrabble word?

Yes, thread is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of thread?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (weaving) A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.

2. (engineering) A screw thread.

3. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.

4. (Internet) A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform.Internet

5. (figurative, obsolete) The degree of fineness; quality; nature.Examples: "A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread."figurativelyobsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.transitive

2. (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.transitive

3. (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).Examples: "to thread through narrow passages"; "I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight."; "The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times."figurativelytransitive

4. (transitive, figurative) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).Examples: "He threaded his way through legal entanglements."figurativelytransitive

5. (transitive, figurative) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.Examples: "And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]"; "Tom out here will have leave to thrid you with bullets."; "Only the swifts were alert and busy, flashing, poising, diving under the eaves; thridding Ned's brain as they passed with a receding sound like that made by pebbles hopping over ice."figurativelytransitive

6. (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.Examples: "[...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds."; "[...] dark hair threaded with gray pulled back from a face still beautiful in spite of clear evidence of the passage of time."; "[...] landscape threaded with rivers, roads, tracks, pathways and an airport runway; one peppered with villages, farms, crofts and distilleries. Visitors to Islay, especially those coming from densely populated urban areas, often mistakenly[…]"transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "thread"?

Scrabble
10 points
T1
H4
R1
E1
A1
D2
Words With Friends
9 points
T1
H3
R1
E1
A1
D2

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