HAP is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HAP 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 HAP?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAP is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HAP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does HAP mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
Chance, or a happening.
Hap is the word that gave English happen, happy and perhaps, and all three still carry chance inside them: happy once meant lucky rather than pleased. The bare noun is archaic now and survives mainly in verse and in the compound mishap.
How HAP is used
Uncountable: by hap. Archaic; the words built on it are everywhere.
- By hap they met again twenty years later.
- The word hap is inside happen and perhaps alike.
- A hap of that kind cannot be planned for.
- Older verse uses hap where prose would say chance.
- Happy once meant favoured by hap and nothing more.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HAP
The 3 tiles of HAP in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HAP
Showing 24 of 96 words that begin with HAP.
Words ending in HAP
4 words end in HAP. Useful as a back hook: play HAP onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAP inside
Showing 24 of 268 words that contain HAP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HAP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAP
Common questions about HAP
- Is HAP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAP, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAP worth?
- HAP is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAP mean?
- Chance, or a happening.
- What letters can be added to HAP?
- HAP takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HAP:
Open HAP in the Word Finder