DOATED is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DOATED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOATED?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOATED is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOATED
No single letter turns DOATED into another word.
How DOATED scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DOATED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about DOATED
- DOATED begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DOATED mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have shown foolish fondness — an older spelling of doted.
The two forms ran side by side for centuries and the shorter one won; doated survives in older printing and in lists of accepted words, and a reader who meets it now usually assumes a misprint. The sense has not moved at all: an affection strong enough to be slightly ridiculous.
How DOATED is used
Past tense of doat. The usual modern spelling is doted.
- She doated on the boy and everybody said so.
- He doated upon his garden and neglected the house.
- The letter says doated and the editor has left it alone.
- They doated on that dog for fifteen years.
- A text that spells it doated is older than it looks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOATED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOATED
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Common questions about DOATED
- Is DOATED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOATED, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOATED worth?
- DOATED is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOATED mean?
- To have shown foolish fondness — an older spelling of doted.
- What letters can be added to DOATED?
- No single letter can be added to DOATED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DOATED:
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