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Yes. The word broad is a Scrabble US word. The word broad is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is broad a Scrabble UK word?

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5-letter words (6 found)

ABORD,BARDO,BOARD,BROAD,DOBRA,DORBA,

4-letter words (12 found)

BARD,BOAR,BORA,BORD,BRAD,BROD,DARB,DOAB,DORB,DRAB,ORAD,ROAD,

3-letter words (24 found)

ABO,ADO,ARB,ARD,BAD,BAO,BAR,BOA,BOD,BOR,BRA,BRO,DAB,DOB,DOR,OAR,OBA,ODA,ORA,ORB,ORD,RAD,ROB,ROD,

2-letter words (10 found)

AB,AD,AR,BA,BO,DA,DO,OB,OD,OR,

You can make 52 words from broad according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of broad

broad

English

Etymology 1

    From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.

    Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹɔːd/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /bɹɔd/
      • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /bɹɑd/
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /bɹoːd/
    • Rhymes: -ɔːd

    The failure of the /ɔː/ vowel of Middle English to shift to Modern /əʊ/ during the Great Vowel Shift is irregular and has not been conclusively explained; compare the similarly mysterious obsolete pronunciation of groat as /ɡɹɔːt/.

    Adjective

    broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)

    1. Wide in extent or scope.
    2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
      • May 12, 1860, Eliza Watson, Witches and witchcraft (in Once A Week, No. 46.)
        crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day
    3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
    4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
    5. Plain; evident.
    6. General rather than specific.
    7. (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
    8. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
    9. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
    10. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
    11. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
    Antonyms
    • (antonym(s) of “wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object”): thin, narrow
    • (antonym(s) of “wide—regarding body width”): skinny
    • (antonym(s) of “comprehensive”): all-encompassing; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
    • (antonym(s) of “not palatalized”): slender
    Derived terms
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    Translations

    Noun

    broad (plural broads)

    1. (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
    2. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
    3. (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
    4. (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
    5. (slang, archaic) A playing card.
    Derived terms
    • Broadland (sense 1)
    • broadsman
    • Oulton Broad (sense 1)

    Etymology 2

    Early 20th century, from American English. Perhaps from broad hips. Or from abroadwife (“woman who lives or travels without her husband, often a slave”). There may also have been influence from bride and/or its German cognate Braut (“bride”, also “girlfriend”, and more generally “broad, young woman”).

    Noun

    broad (plural broads)

    2. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute
    4. (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:woman, Thesaurus:girl
    Derived terms
    Translations

    See also

    • Appendix:English adjectives with derived terms in -en and -ness

    References

    Anagrams

    • bardo, Broda, Board, Bardo, dobra, Borda, dorab, abord, Dobra, board, adorb

    Bavarian

    Alternative forms

    • brad (East Central Bavarian, Carinthia, Vienna)
    • broat (Tyrol)

    Etymology

    From Middle High German breit, from Old High German breit, from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz. Cognates include German breit, Yiddish ברייט (breyt), Dutch breed, Old Norse breiðr, Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /b̥rɔɐ̯d̥/

    Adjective

    broad (comparative broader, superlative broaderstn) (West Central Bavarian, South Central Bavarian)

    1. broad, wide
    2. long (of a distance)

    Breton

    Etymology

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Noun

    broad m (plural broiz)

    1. person from a country

    Inflection

    Noun

    broad f (plural broadoù)

    1. nation

    Inflection

    Derived terms

    • broadel

    Source: wiktionary.org