HARD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HARD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HARD?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HARD is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HARD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HARD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HARD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does HARD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Solid and firm; difficult to do.
Hard covers both physical firmness and difficulty, and most languages need separate words for those. Its adverb has two forms with quite different meanings.
How HARD is used
Comparative harder. Adverb: hard, hardly.
- A hard frost that split two pipes.
- The word hard covers firmness and difficulty at once.
- Working hard and hardly working are opposites.
- Harder than it looked from the road.
- Most languages separate the two senses of hard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HARD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HARD
Showing 24 of 130 words that begin with HARD.
Words ending in HARD
16 words end in HARD. Useful as a back hook: play HARD onto a word already on the board.
Words with HARD inside
Showing 24 of 51 words that contain HARD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HARD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HARD
Common questions about HARD
- Is HARD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HARD, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HARD worth?
- HARD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HARD mean?
- Solid and firm; difficult to do.
- What letters can be added to HARD?
- HARD takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HARD:
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