DID is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. DID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DID?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DID is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DID
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How DID scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What stands out about DID
- DID is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DID mean in Scrabble?
verb
To do — the past form used in questions and negatives.
Did carries a job no other past tense has: it builds questions and negatives for every verb in the language, which is why it appears far more often than the verb it belongs to. That whole system arrived only in the sixteenth century.
How DID is used
Past tense of do; also the auxiliary in questions.
- She did the work and somebody else took the credit.
- Did anybody ask before the decision was made?
- He did not agree and said so twice.
- The word did carries questions for every English verb.
- They did nothing for a year and then everything at once.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DID
Showing 24 of 81 words that begin with DID.
Words ending in DID
20 words end in DID. Useful as a back hook: play DID onto a word already on the board.
Words with DID inside
Showing 24 of 83 words that contain DID somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DID are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DID
Common questions about DID
- Is DID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DID, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DID worth?
- DID is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DID mean?
- To do — the past form used in questions and negatives.
- What letters can be added to DID?
- DID takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DID:
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