ford
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
Noun 2 meanings
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
A stream; a current.
Verb 2 meanings
To cross a stream by walking through it.
To traverse any precarious environment.
Etymology
From Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin.
FORD at a glance
FORD has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (F 4 + O 1 + R 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,933 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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