EMBED is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. EMBED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EMBED?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EMBED is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EMBED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How EMBED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in EMBED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 71,295.
What does EMBED mean in Scrabble?
verb
To fix an object firmly and deeply within a surrounding mass or structure.
Embed applies to a splinter lodged in skin, a fossil embedded in rock, or a chip embedded inside a device, and it extends just as naturally to ideas, so a lesson can be embedded in a story or a habit embedded in someone's routine. In journalism, an embed also names a reporter who travels attached to a military unit, sharing its conditions in order to report from close to the action.
How EMBED is used
Common in everyday, technical, and journalistic writing, both as a verb and, in the journalism sense, as a noun.
- Workers embedded steel rods into the wet concrete for support.
- The website lets users embed a video directly into their post.
- Years of routine had embedded the habit deep in his daily schedule.
- A shard of glass had embedded itself in the tire.
- The network sent an embed to travel with the infantry unit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EMBED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EMBED
6 longer words begin with EMBED.
Words ending in EMBED
1 words end in EMBED. Useful as a back hook: play EMBED onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in EMBED
Common questions about EMBED
- Is EMBED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EMBED, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EMBED worth?
- EMBED is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EMBED mean?
- To fix an object firmly and deeply within a surrounding mass or structure.
- What letters can be added to EMBED?
- EMBED takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of EMBED:
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