bread: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with B · ends with D
Meaning of bread
noun
- countable, uncountable
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- countable, especially, uncountable
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
Example: We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
- countable, uncountable
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- countable
Any variety of bread.
Example: Some breads are harder and drier than others.
Listed forms: breads, breade.
Source: Wiktionary — bread.
verb
- transitive
To coat with breadcrumbs.
Example: breaded fish
Listed forms: breads, breading, breaded, breade.
Source: Wiktionary — bread.
noun
- Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
Breadth.
Listed forms: breads.
Source: Wiktionary — bread.
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 bread.
noun
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- breadstuff
- staff of life
noun
informal terms for money
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is bread in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bread
B(3) + R(1) + E(1) + A(1) + D(2) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of bread
5 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from bread
33 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in bread. Showing up to 24, longest first.