HIST is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. HIST 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 HIST?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HIST is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HIST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HIST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What stands out about HIST
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 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 HIST mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaic
A call for hush, printed mainly in stage directions when a character needs the room to fall silent at once.
Hist belongs to the stage and to the page rather than to the street: it is what a character says in a play when somebody is coming, and it survives mainly because writers needed something to print for that noise. Said aloud today it sounds theatrical, which is very nearly the only use left for it.
How HIST is used
Stands alone, usually with an exclamation mark. Not used as a noun or a verb.
- Hist, there is somebody on the stair.
- The stage direction is a single word: hist.
- He said hist and everyone stopped talking.
- Hist appears three times in the first act and never after.
- Nobody says hist in a room without an audience.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HIST
The 4 tiles of HIST in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with HIST
Showing 24 of 119 words that begin with HIST.
Words ending in HIST
Showing 24 of 84 words that end in HIST. Useful as a back hook: play HIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with HIST inside
Showing 24 of 232 words that contain HIST somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HIST
Common questions about HIST
- Is HIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HIST, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HIST worth?
- HIST is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HIST mean?
- A call for hush, printed mainly in stage directions when a character needs the room to fall silent at once.
- What letters can be added to HIST?
- HIST takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HIST:
Open HIST in the Word Finder