ACOLD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ACOLD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ACOLD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ACOLD is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ACOLD
No single letter turns ACOLD into another word.
How ACOLD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ACOLD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does ACOLD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Feeling cold, or affected by a sharp, penetrating chill.
Acold is an archaic adjective built from the old prefix a- attached to cold, in the same pattern as afire or asleep. The word is best known from Shakespeare's King Lear, where the disguised Edgar cries that he is acold, and it has rarely been used outside quotation or deliberate archaism since. Writers today reach for acold only to evoke an old-fashioned or Shakespearean tone.
How ACOLD is used
Archaic; almost always encountered in quotation from older literature rather than in ordinary writing.
- The beggar in the play cries that he is acold.
- The old ballad describes travellers acold on the moor.
- She read the line about being acold and shivered herself.
- Even modern poets rarely reach for a word as archaic as acold.
- The professor explained that acold once simply meant chilled.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ACOLD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in ACOLD
1 words end in ACOLD. Useful as a back hook: play ACOLD onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ACOLD
Common questions about ACOLD
- Is ACOLD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ACOLD, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ACOLD worth?
- ACOLD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ACOLD mean?
- Feeling cold, or affected by a sharp, penetrating chill.
- What letters can be added to ACOLD?
- No single letter can be added to ACOLD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ACOLD:
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