FLIED is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FLIED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FLIED?
| 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 FLIED is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLIED
No single letter turns FLIED into another word.
How FLIED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLIED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about FLIED
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FLIED mean in Scrabble?
verb
North American
To hit a fly ball that is caught by a fielder for an out, in baseball; used as the past tense and past participle of fly in this specific sporting sense.
In ordinary use the past tense of fly is flew, as in the bird flew away, but baseball commentary long ago settled on flied for this narrower meaning, since the batter is not literally flying, only sending the ball into the air. Saying a batter flied out to center field marks a specific kind of out, distinct from a grounder or a strikeout, in which the ball is caught before it touches the ground. This unusual, regular-looking past tense has become a fixed feature of baseball reporting, even though flied sounds wrong outside that context.
How FLIED is used
Used almost exclusively in baseball reporting and commentary, typically in the phrase flied out.
- He flied out to deep center field in the seventh inning.
- The batter flied to short with the bases loaded.
- She flied out on the very first pitch of the game.
- He had flied out twice before finally hitting a double.
- The rookie flied to right field for the final out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLIED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FLIED
The 5 tiles of FLIED in a different order — 3 found.
Words ending in FLIED
1 words end in FLIED. Useful as a back hook: play FLIED onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in FLIED
Common questions about FLIED
- Is FLIED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FLIED, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FLIED worth?
- FLIED is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLIED mean?
- To hit a fly ball that is caught by a fielder for an out, in baseball; used as the past tense and past participle of fly in this specific sporting sense.
- What letters can be added to FLIED?
- No single letter can be added to FLIED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLIED:
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