HER is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. HER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HER?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HER is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 11 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HER scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does HER mean in Scrabble?
pronoun
Doing service as both an object and a possessive in one word, covering what his and him split into two separate forms for a male.
Her does two jobs that English keeps separate everywhere else: it is both the object form and the possessive, where the masculine splits into two different words. That collapse happened before 1200 and has never been undone.
How HER is used
Possessive and object form alike.
- Give her the letter when she comes in.
- Her coat is on the second hook.
- The decision was hers and the blame was somebody else's.
- They told her twice and she forgot both times.
- The word her does two jobs where the masculine uses two words.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HER
The 3 tiles of HER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HER
Showing 24 of 373 words that begin with HER.
Words ending in HER
Showing 24 of 553 words that end in HER. Useful as a back hook: play HER onto a word already on the board.
Words with HER inside
Showing 24 of 2513 words that contain HER somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HER
Common questions about HER
- Is HER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HER, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HER worth?
- HER is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HER mean?
- Doing service as both an object and a possessive in one word, covering what his and him split into two separate forms for a male.
- What letters can be added to HER?
- HER takes 11 hooks: 1 in front and 10 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HER:
Open HER in the Word Finder