yard: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with Y · ends with D
Meaning of yard
noun
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- Australia, Canada, US
The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
Listed forms: yards, yaird, yeard, yerd, yod.
Source: Wiktionary — yard.
verb
- transitive
To confine to a yard.
Listed forms: yards, yarding, yarded, yaird, yeard, yerd, yod.
Source: Wiktionary — yard.
noun
A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
Any spar carried aloft.
Any spar carried aloft. A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
Listed forms: yards, yaird, yeard, yerd, yod.
Source: Wiktionary — yard.
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 yard.
noun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
noun
the enclosed land around a house or other building
noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
noun
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- cubic yard
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is yard in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of yard
Y(4) + A(1) + R(1) + D(2) = 8 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 yard
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from yard
10 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in yard. Showing up to 24, longest first.