CUD is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CUD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CUD?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CUD is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CUD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CUD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in CUD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does CUD mean in Scrabble?
noun
Food brought back from the stomach for a second chewing.
Chewing the cud is not leisure: a cow spends around eight hours a day at it, and the process is the only reason an animal can live on grass at all. The phrase about chewing something over came from watching that, and it is four centuries old.
How CUD is used
Uncountable: chewing the cud.
- The herd lay in the shade chewing the cud.
- A cow spends eight hours a day on the cud.
- Without the cud grass would feed nothing.
- He sat chewing the cud over a decision nobody had asked him to make.
- The phrase about the cud came from the field and not the study.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CUD
Showing 24 of 38 words that begin with CUD.
Words ending in CUD
1 words end in CUD. Useful as a back hook: play CUD onto a word already on the board.
Words with CUD inside
Showing 24 of 33 words that contain CUD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CUD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about CUD
- Is CUD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUD, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUD worth?
- CUD is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUD mean?
- Food brought back from the stomach for a second chewing.
- What letters can be added to CUD?
- CUD takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of CUD:
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