HADST is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HADST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HADST?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HADST is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HADST
No single letter turns HADST into another word.
How HADST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HADST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does HADST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have had, in the old second person singular past tense that follows thou, as in thou hadst spoken.
Hadst belongs to the same vanished system of verb endings as hast and wast, all built for addressing a single person directly with thou rather than the all-purpose you that modern English settled on. A speaker who said thou hadst was simply saying you had, whether about possessing an object, holding a position, or having done something earlier. The form survives almost entirely in older religious texts, historical drama, and writing that deliberately imitates earlier centuries of English. Modern readers usually recognize hadst on sight even without having learned the old rules, since the -st ending closely echoes the still-familiar hast and wast.
How HADST is used
Archaic; found in older texts, hymns, and deliberately old-fashioned writing rather than in current speech.
- Thou hadst every reason to doubt him, the old letter began.
- The hymn asks what thou hadst before the world was made.
- He wrote hadst where a modern writer would simply put had.
- Thou hadst not spoken a word since morning, the play's stage direction notes.
- She read hadst aloud and smiled at how old the phrase sounded.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HADST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HADST
Common questions about HADST
- Is HADST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HADST, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HADST worth?
- HADST is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HADST mean?
- To have had, in the old second person singular past tense that follows thou, as in thou hadst spoken.
- What letters can be added to HADST?
- No single letter can be added to HADST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HADST:
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