DUED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. DUED 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DUED?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUED is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUED
No single letter turns DUED into another word.
How DUED scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DUED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 13,615.
What does DUED mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicobsolete
To furnish or invest something with a particular quality, the archaic past-tense form of the obsolete verb due, also spelled endue.
Centuries ago the plain verb due carried a sense now expressed by endue: to give someone or something a particular trait, almost as if dressing them in it. Writers of the period used dued whenever they needed the past form of that older sense, long before due narrowed down to describing money owed or a scheduled date. The form survives today only because word-game lists preserve archaic inflections that ordinary dictionaries dropped decades ago.
How DUED is used
Archaic and extremely rare; met only in old texts or specialist word lists, never in modern speech.
- The old chronicle says the knight dued himself with courage before the fight.
- In the antique text, virtue is said to have dued the young king with wisdom.
- The translator left dued untouched, noting that it once meant endued.
- Scholars argue over what exactly dued a man with such patience in the old poem.
- The glossary lists dued as a forgotten past tense of due.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DUED
The 4 tiles of DUED in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in DUED
5 words end in DUED. Useful as a back hook: play DUED onto a word already on the board.
Words with DUED inside
3 words contain DUED in the middle. Words that start with DUED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DUED
Common questions about DUED
- Is DUED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DUED is not in it.
- How many points is DUED worth?
- DUED is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUED mean?
- To furnish or invest something with a particular quality, the archaic past-tense form of the obsolete verb due, also spelled endue.
- What letters can be added to DUED?
- No single letter can be added to DUED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DUED:
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