rudd
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
Definition of rudd
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
-
Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
“Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.”
See all 4 definitions Show less
noun
-
Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
“Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.”
- Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
name
-
A surname transferred from the nickname.
“I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.”
- A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).
Words you can make from rudd
2 playable · top: DUD (5 pts)
Best play dud 5 points3-letter words
1 wordHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
A single letter you can add to rudd to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with rudd
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes rudd, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.