CHILD is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CHILD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHILD?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHILD is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHILD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CHILD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHILD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does CHILD mean in Scrabble?
noun
A young human being, especially one who has not yet reached puberty or the legal age of adulthood; also, a son or daughter of any age.
Child covers the whole span of early human life, from an infant to a young person on the edge of adolescence, and it remains the plain, general word for a young person regardless of gender. The word also carries a second, unrelated sense of family relationship, describing a son or daughter of any age, so an adult can still be called the child of their parents. By extension, child can describe someone who behaves immaturely or someone strongly shaped by a particular influence, as in a child of the times. Across all these uses, child keeps its core link to being young, dependent or descended from someone else.
How CHILD is used
Extremely common in everyday speech and writing, covering both young age and the relationship between parent and offspring.
- The child ran laughing through the garden sprinkler.
- She is the youngest child in a family of five.
- Even at forty, he still felt like a child in his mother's house.
- The school welcomed every child on the first day of term.
- He was raised a child of the countryside, far from any city.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHILD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CHILD
Showing 24 of 46 words that begin with CHILD.
Words ending in CHILD
9 words end in CHILD. Useful as a back hook: play CHILD onto a word already on the board.
Words with CHILD inside
12 words contain CHILD in the middle. Words that start with CHILD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHILD
Common questions about CHILD
- Is CHILD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHILD, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHILD worth?
- CHILD is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHILD mean?
- A young human being, especially one who has not yet reached puberty or the legal age of adulthood; also, a son or daughter of any age.
- What letters can be added to CHILD?
- CHILD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHILD:
Open CHILD in the Word Finder