DREST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DREST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DREST?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DREST is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DREST
No single letter turns DREST into another word.
How DREST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DREST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does DREST mean in Scrabble?
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archaic
An archaic spelling of dressed, drest is the past tense and past participle of the verb dress.
Older English texts, especially poetry and translations from earlier centuries, sometimes spell dressed as drest to fit a line's metre or older printing habits. The meaning matches dressed exactly, covering both the sense of wearing clothes and the sense of preparing food or a wound. Modern writing keeps the standard spelling dressed and meets drest mainly in quotations from older sources.
How DREST is used
Archaic; met almost only in older texts and poetry, not in current writing.
- The old poem says she drest herself in white.
- He was drest for battle before dawn.
- The Bible passage tells how the wound was drest with oil.
- The manuscript reads drest where a modern text has dressed.
- She quoted the line where the bride is drest in silk.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DREST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in DREST
5 words end in DREST. Useful as a back hook: play DREST onto a word already on the board.
Words with DREST inside
2 words contain DREST in the middle. Words that start with DREST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DREST
Common questions about DREST
- Is DREST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DREST, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DREST worth?
- DREST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DREST mean?
- An archaic spelling of dressed, drest is the past tense and past participle of the verb dress.
- What letters can be added to DREST?
- No single letter can be added to DREST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DREST:
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