BED is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BED 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 BED?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BED is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does BED mean in Scrabble?
noun
A piece of furniture for sleeping on.
Bed names the place and the layer at the same time: a flower bed, a river bed, a bed of mortar. What links them is something laid flat as a base, and the sleeping sense is the one that has drifted furthest from that idea.
How BED is used
Countable: a bed, two beds. Also a verb.
- The bed came apart during the move and never went back properly.
- The river bed was dry for the first time in living memory.
- They bedded the slabs on sand rather than mortar.
- A bed of nettles took over the whole corner.
- Every sense of the word bed is something laid flat.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BED
The 3 tiles of BED in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BED
Showing 24 of 287 words that begin with BED.
Words ending in BED
Showing 24 of 277 words that end in BED. Useful as a back hook: play BED onto a word already on the board.
Words with BED inside
Showing 24 of 91 words that contain BED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BED
Common questions about BED
- Is BED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BED, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BED worth?
- BED is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BED mean?
- A piece of furniture for sleeping on.
- What letters can be added to BED?
- BED takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BED:
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