ALMUD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ALMUD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALMUD?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALMUD is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALMUD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALMUD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALMUD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does ALMUD mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An old Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry or liquid measure, sometimes spelled almude, that varied in size from place to place.
An almud was a traditional way of measuring grain, oil or wine before metric units replaced local ones across Spain, Portugal and their American colonies. Because each region set its own standard, an almud of grain in one town could hold noticeably more or less than an almud in another, which made trade between regions tricky. Old documents still record land and harvests using the almud, so historians and translators run into the word when reading colonial-era records. Today it survives mainly as a historical curiosity rather than as a measure anyone actually uses.
How ALMUD is used
Historical; found in older Spanish and Portuguese records and in writing about colonial Latin America.
- The old ledger recorded the harvest in almuds rather than in modern liters.
- Farmers once measured out seed corn by the almud.
- A single almud of oil could vary in size from one province to the next.
- The historian explained how an almud of land differed from an almud of grain.
- Colonial records still use the almud where a modern reader expects kilograms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALMUD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ALMUD
3 longer words begin with ALMUD.
Words ending in ALMUD
1 words end in ALMUD. Useful as a back hook: play ALMUD onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALMUD inside
4 words contain ALMUD in the middle. Words that start with ALMUD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALMUD
Common questions about ALMUD
- Is ALMUD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALMUD, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALMUD worth?
- ALMUD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALMUD mean?
- An old Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry or liquid measure, sometimes spelled almude, that varied in size from place to place.
- What letters can be added to ALMUD?
- ALMUD takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALMUD:
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