Scrabble and Words with Friends

• BACKWARD is a valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• BACKWARD is a valid Words with Friends word worth 22 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• BACKWARD is a 8 letter word containing the letters a, a, b, c, d, k, r, w.

Definitions

• backward

  adjective directed or facing toward the back or rear
  a backward view

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• backward

  adjective (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
  a backward lover

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• backward

  adverb at or to or toward the back or rear
  tripped when he stepped backward

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• backward

  adverb in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
  it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'
  the child put her jersey on backward

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• backward

  adverb in or to or toward a past time
  lovers of the past looking fondly backward

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• backward

  adjective satellite retarded in intellectual development

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• backward

  adjective satellite having made less than normal progress
  an economically backward country

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• Lookup BACKWARD using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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Words that sound like 'backward'

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