ADD is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ADD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADD?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADD is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ADD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ADD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does ADD mean in Scrabble?
verb
To join something to another thing to increase it.
Add and its relatives came from a Latin verb meaning to give to, and the arithmetic sense arrived last: the ordinary meaning of putting one thing with another is far older. The phrase about something not adding up is nineteenth-century.
How ADD is used
Transitive. Common in add up and add to.
- Add the eggs one at a time and stop mixing.
- The figures do not add up and never did.
- She added a paragraph that changed the whole meaning.
- Adding a room costs more than moving house.
- The arithmetic sense of add is the youngest one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ADD
The 3 tiles of ADD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ADD
Showing 24 of 104 words that begin with ADD.
Words ending in ADD
5 words end in ADD. Useful as a back hook: play ADD onto a word already on the board.
Words with ADD inside
Showing 24 of 468 words that contain ADD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ADD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ADD
Common questions about ADD
- Is ADD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADD, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADD worth?
- ADD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADD mean?
- To join something to another thing to increase it.
- What letters can be added to ADD?
- ADD takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ADD:
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