HET is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. HET 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 HET?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HET is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HET scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What stands out about HET
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HET mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Heated, or worked up about something.
Het survives in one phrase — het up — and it is the old past participle of heat, kept alive by the idiom long after the verb went regular. The word has no other use at all: nobody has ever described a room as het.
How HET is used
Only in het up. Informal.
- He got het up about a form nobody was going to read.
- There is no point getting het up over the weather.
- She was het up all morning and calm by lunch.
- The word het survives in one phrase and nowhere else.
- Getting het up is the fastest way to lose the argument.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HET
The 3 tiles of HET in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with HET
Showing 24 of 262 words that begin with HET.
Words ending in HET
Showing 24 of 37 words that end in HET. Useful as a back hook: play HET onto a word already on the board.
Words with HET inside
Showing 24 of 517 words that contain HET somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HET are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HET
Common questions about HET
- Is HET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HET, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HET worth?
- HET is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HET mean?
- Heated, or worked up about something.
- What letters can be added to HET?
- HET takes 6 hooks: 3 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HET:
Open HET in the Word Finder