HAD is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. HAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAD?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAD is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does HAD mean in Scrabble?
verb
To have had — the past form of have.
Had does more grammatical work than almost any other word in English: it is a main verb, an auxiliary and part of the past perfect, and the sentence he had had it uses two of those jobs at once. Nothing in the form tells a reader which one is meant.
How HAD is used
Past tense and past participle of have.
- She had the whole thing finished by Tuesday.
- He had had enough and said so.
- They had left before anybody noticed.
- Had I known, I would have said nothing.
- The word had can be a verb and an auxiliary in one sentence.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HAD
The 3 tiles of HAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HAD
Showing 24 of 36 words that begin with HAD.
Words ending in HAD
7 words end in HAD. Useful as a back hook: play HAD onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAD inside
Showing 24 of 175 words that contain HAD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HAD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAD
Common questions about HAD
- Is HAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAD, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAD worth?
- HAD is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAD mean?
- To have had — the past form of have.
- What letters can be added to HAD?
- HAD takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HAD:
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