CHODE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. CHODE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CHODE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHODE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHODE
No single letter turns CHODE into another word.
How CHODE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CHODE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does CHODE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To rebuke or scold someone in words; chode is an archaic past tense of chide.
Chide once had an irregular past tense, chode, used alongside the regular chided in older English. A speaker who chode someone had spoken sharply to correct them, much as chided does today. Modern usage abandoned chode almost entirely in favor of the regular form, so the word now stands out as a deliberate archaism.
How CHODE is used
Archaic; found in older texts and rarely used outside quotation or historical fiction today.
- The old chronicle says the king chode his knights for their delay.
- She chode him gently, as an elder might correct a child.
- In the play, the father chode his son before the whole household.
- The preacher chode the crowd for its lack of faith.
- He chode her once, and never again, for the words cut deep.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHODE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with CHODE inside
4 words contain CHODE in the middle. Words that start with CHODE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CHODE
Common questions about CHODE
- Is CHODE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CHODE is not in it.
- How many points is CHODE worth?
- CHODE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHODE mean?
- To rebuke or scold someone in words; chode is an archaic past tense of chide.
- What letters can be added to CHODE?
- No single letter can be added to CHODE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CHODE:
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