HID is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. HID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HID?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HID is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HID
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How HID scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does HID mean in Scrabble?
verb
To have hidden — the past form of hide.
Hid and hidden are both past forms and English uses them for different jobs: hid is the simple past and hidden is the participle, and mixing them up is among the commonest slips in speech. The unrelated noun meaning an animal skin is a separate word entirely.
How HID is used
Past tense of hide. The past participle is hidden.
- She hid the key under a stone and forgot which.
- He hid for an hour and nobody looked.
- They hid the damage rather than repairing it.
- Hid is the simple past and hidden is the participle.
- The dog hid whenever the case came out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HID
Showing 24 of 45 words that begin with HID.
Words ending in HID
17 words end in HID. Useful as a back hook: play HID onto a word already on the board.
Words with HID inside
Showing 24 of 159 words that contain HID somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HID are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HID
Common questions about HID
- Is HID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HID, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HID worth?
- HID is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HID mean?
- To have hidden — the past form of hide.
- What letters can be added to HID?
- HID takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HID:
Open HID in the Word Finder