BOD is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BOD 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 BOD?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOD is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BOD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,527.
What does BOD mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A person, in casual British speech.
Bod is clipped from body, and it belongs to a construction rather than to a sentence: an odd bod, a few bods from the office. Standing alone it sounds incomplete, which is unusual for a noun and typical of clippings that arrived late.
How BOD is used
Countable: a bod, two bods. Chiefly British.
- A couple of bods from upstairs came down to look.
- He is an odd bod and always has been.
- The word bod rarely stands on its own.
- Two bods and a clipboard held up the whole queue.
- A bod in that sentence means a person and nothing more.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BOD
The 3 tiles of BOD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BOD
Showing 24 of 103 words that begin with BOD.
Words ending in BOD
2 words end in BOD. Useful as a back hook: play BOD onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOD inside
Showing 24 of 109 words that contain BOD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BOD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOD
Common questions about BOD
- Is BOD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOD, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOD worth?
- BOD is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOD mean?
- A person, in casual British speech.
- What letters can be added to BOD?
- BOD takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BOD:
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