DOWD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOWD 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 9 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept DOWD?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOWD is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOWD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOWD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOWD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does DOWD mean in Scrabble?
noun
A woman whose clothes are shabby or out of fashion.
Dowd is the noun behind an adjective almost everybody knows, and it is far rarer than dowdy: people describe the look and hardly ever name the person. Both go back to an old term for a slattern, and the judgement in them is about effort rather than money — which is exactly what makes the word unpleasant.
How DOWD is used
Countable: a dowd, two dowds. The adjective dowdy is far commoner.
- She was written off as a dowd by people who had never spoken to her.
- The word dowd says more about the speaker than the subject.
- A dowd in one decade is plainly dressed in the next.
- He uses dowd twice in the novel and both times unkindly.
- Dowd went out of use long before dowdy did.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOWD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DOWD
11 longer words begin with DOWD.
Words with DOWD inside
2 words contain DOWD in the middle. Words that start with DOWD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOWD
Common questions about DOWD
- Is DOWD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOWD, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOWD worth?
- DOWD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOWD mean?
- A woman whose clothes are shabby or out of fashion.
- What letters can be added to DOWD?
- DOWD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOWD:
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