DUD is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. DUD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DUD?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUD is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DUD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DUD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,738.
What stands out about DUD
- DUD 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 DUD mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
Something that fails to work as intended.
Dud began as a word for ragged clothing and became a word for a shell that fails to explode, during the First World War. The general sense of anything useless followed from that, and the clothing one has disappeared entirely.
How DUD is used
Countable: a dud, two duds. Also an adjective.
- The battery was a dud straight out of the packet.
- A dud shell is more dangerous than one that went off.
- The word dud once meant ragged clothes.
- Two duds in a box of twelve is a bad batch.
- He wrote a dud cheque and left the county.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DUD
Showing 24 of 30 words that begin with DUD.
Words ending in DUD
1 words end in DUD. Useful as a back hook: play DUD onto a word already on the board.
Words with DUD inside
9 words contain DUD in the middle. Words that start with DUD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about DUD
- Is DUD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DUD, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DUD worth?
- DUD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUD mean?
- Something that fails to work as intended.
- What letters can be added to DUD?
- DUD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DUD:
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