ADUST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ADUST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADUST?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADUST is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADUST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
adustsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ADUST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADUST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ADUST mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Scorched, burnt, or darkened by heat; in older writing, also used for a gloomy or melancholic temperament.
Writers once used adust literally for skin or land scorched by strong sun, describing a face burned dark by long exposure to weather. Old medical theory borrowed the same word for a person whose blood or bile was thought to be overheated and thickened, producing the gloomy, brooding temperament once called adust. Both senses of adust survive today mainly in historical fiction and quotation from earlier centuries rather than in ordinary speech.
How ADUST is used
Archaic and literary; met mainly in older texts describing sunburned skin or a melancholic humor.
- Years at sea had left his face adust and lined.
- The old physician described the patient's temperament as adust and sullen.
- Fields lay adust under the relentless summer sun.
- The poem paints an adust landscape scorched by drought.
- His adust complexion told of decades spent working outdoors.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADUST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ADUST
The 5 tiles of ADUST in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ADUST
3 longer words begin with ADUST.
Shorter words from the letters in ADUST
Common questions about ADUST
- Is ADUST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADUST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADUST worth?
- ADUST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADUST mean?
- Scorched, burnt, or darkened by heat; in older writing, also used for a gloomy or melancholic temperament.
- What letters can be added to ADUST?
- ADUST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADUST:
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