HEEDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. HEEDY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept HEEDY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HEEDY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HEEDY
No single letter turns HEEDY into another word.
How HEEDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HEEDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 71,295.
What does HEEDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Careful and attentive; watchful of danger or duty.
Heedy described a person or an animal that paid close attention to what was happening around it, especially to signs of danger. Spenser used the word in his poetry, and it survived mainly through verse rather than everyday speech. The ordinary word heed, meaning attention or care, is far more common today, while heedy itself dropped out of use centuries ago. A heedy watchman missed very little, which is exactly the sense the word was built to carry.
How HEEDY is used
Archaic; heedful is now used wherever heedy once served.
- A heedy shepherd notices the first sheep to wander off.
- Old poems call a careful guard heedy rather than careful.
- She kept a heedy eye on the weather all afternoon.
- A heedy servant caught the mistake before anyone else did.
- The word heedy has all but vanished from modern writing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HEEDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HEEDY
The 5 tiles of HEEDY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in HEEDY
1 words end in HEEDY. Useful as a back hook: play HEEDY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in HEEDY
Common questions about HEEDY
- Is HEEDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and HEEDY is not in it.
- How many points is HEEDY worth?
- HEEDY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HEEDY mean?
- Careful and attentive; watchful of danger or duty.
- What letters can be added to HEEDY?
- No single letter can be added to HEEDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HEEDY:
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