DOD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOD 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DOD?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOD is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DOD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What stands out about DOD
- DOD 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 DOD mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To clip or cut off something, such as wool from a sheep's tail.
Dod appears in older Scots and northern English farm vocabulary, often paired with related forms like doddit, which describes an animal that has had its horns removed. Glossaries group dod together with similar-sounding dialect words such as daud and dawd, all pointing to a portion knocked or taken off something larger. The word survives today mainly in dialect dictionaries and specialist farming records rather than everyday speech.
How DOD is used
Used in Scots and older farming dialect rather than standard English.
- The shepherd would dod the wool before shearing season began.
- She watched her father dod the matted fleece from the ewe.
- They had to dod the branch before it damaged the fence.
- He learned to dod the hedge into a neat, even line.
- The old farmhand still knew how to dod a tail by hand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DOD
The 3 tiles of DOD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DOD
Showing 24 of 75 words that begin with DOD.
Words ending in DOD
1 words end in DOD. Useful as a back hook: play DOD onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOD inside
Showing 24 of 33 words that contain DOD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DOD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOD
Common questions about DOD
- Is DOD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DOD is not in it.
- How many points is DOD worth?
- DOD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOD mean?
- To clip or cut off something, such as wool from a sheep's tail.
- What letters can be added to DOD?
- DOD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DOD:
Open DOD in the Word Finder