FEED is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FEED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FEED?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FEED is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FEED
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
feedsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FEED scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in FEED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,427.
What does FEED mean in Scrabble?
verb
To give food to a person or animal.
Feed and food are the same Germanic root, one a verb and one a noun, which is why the vowels differ so oddly. The sense about supplying material to a machine is nineteenth-century.
How FEED is used
Irregular past tense. Also a noun.
- They feed the birds all winter and stop in March.
- The word feed shares a root with food.
- A feed of paper jams every third page.
- The machine sense of feed is nineteenth-century.
- Feeding six people from one pot takes planning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FEED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FEED
Showing 24 of 32 words that begin with FEED.
Words ending in FEED
13 words end in FEED. Useful as a back hook: play FEED onto a word already on the board.
Words with FEED inside
Showing 24 of 34 words that contain FEED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with FEED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FEED
Common questions about FEED
- Is FEED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FEED, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FEED worth?
- FEED is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FEED mean?
- To give food to a person or animal.
- What letters can be added to FEED?
- FEED takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of FEED:
Open FEED in the Word Finder