bed: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 6 letter points · starts with B · ends with D
Meaning of bed
noun
- countable
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
Example: My cat often sleeps on my bed.
- countable
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. A mattress.
Example: I find her bed too soft.
- countable
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. A bedframe.
Example: That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.
- countable, uncountable
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
Example: When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
Listed forms: beds.
Source: Wiktionary — bed.
verb
- intransitive
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
Example: I usually listen to music before I bed.
- transitive
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. To place in a bed.
- transitive
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- ambitransitive
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. To have sex (with).
Listed forms: beds, bedding, bedded.
Source: Wiktionary — bed.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for bed.
noun
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
noun
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
noun
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
have sexual intercourse with
- sleep together
- roll in the hay
- love
- make out
- make love
- sleep with
- get laid
- have sex
- know
- do it
- be intimate
- have intercourse
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is bed in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bed
B(3) + E(1) + D(2) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of bed
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from bed
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in bed. Showing up to 24, longest first.