JIHAD is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. JIHAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JIHAD?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JIHAD is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JIHAD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JIHAD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JIHAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does JIHAD mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
A religious duty in Islam involving struggle or effort, understood either as an inner spiritual struggle or as armed struggle in defence of the faith.
Jihad is an Arabic term rooted in the idea of striving or exerting effort toward a goal. Islamic tradition distinguishes between an inner, personal struggle to live according to one's faith and an external struggle that can include armed conflict undertaken under specific religious conditions. Scholars and communities differ on which sense should be emphasised, and the word is used in both religious teaching and historical accounts of conflict. In English dictionaries jihad appears as a loanword describing this range of meaning rather than a single fixed idea.
How JIHAD is used
Used in religious, historical and academic writing about Islam, and its meaning is often debated depending on context.
- The scholar explained jihad as primarily a struggle against one's own faults.
- Historians study the wars fought under the banner of jihad in earlier centuries.
- The imam spoke of jihad as an inner effort toward greater discipline and patience.
- The book examines how the meaning of jihad has shifted across different eras.
- Some texts use jihad to describe any earnest struggle for a righteous cause.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JIHAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of JIHAD
The 5 tiles of JIHAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with JIHAD
8 longer words begin with JIHAD.
Shorter words from the letters in JIHAD
Common questions about JIHAD
- Is JIHAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JIHAD, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JIHAD worth?
- JIHAD is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JIHAD mean?
- A religious duty in Islam involving struggle or effort, understood either as an inner spiritual struggle or as armed struggle in defence of the faith.
- What letters can be added to JIHAD?
- JIHAD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JIHAD:
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