FORDO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FORDO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FORDO?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FORDO is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FORDO
No single letter turns FORDO into another word.
How FORDO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FORDO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What does FORDO mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To destroy, ruin, or overcome completely, especially through violence or exhaustion.
Fordo joins the old intensifying prefix for-, meaning thoroughly, to the verb do, so the word once meant something close to finish off entirely. Writers used fordo both for outright killing in battle and for being utterly worn down by grief or fatigue, and either sense could appear in the same passage. Modern English replaced it with destroy, undo or overcome, so fordo now belongs almost entirely to older literature and to writing that deliberately imitates it.
How FORDO is used
Archaic and literary; met mainly in medieval and early modern texts rather than in ordinary current speech.
- The knight vowed that nothing would fordo his resolve to reach the castle.
- Grief threatened to fordo her completely after the long siege.
- The old tale claims a single arrow could fordo even the fiercest dragon.
- Exhaustion began to fordo the travelers before they reached shelter.
- He believed only treachery, not honest battle, could fordo such a champion.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FORDO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FORDO
4 longer words begin with FORDO.
Shorter words from the letters in FORDO
Common questions about FORDO
- Is FORDO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FORDO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FORDO worth?
- FORDO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FORDO mean?
- To destroy, ruin, or overcome completely, especially through violence or exhaustion.
- What letters can be added to FORDO?
- No single letter can be added to FORDO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FORDO:
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