KED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. KED is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept KED?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KED is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in KED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does KED mean in Scrabble?
noun
A wingless fly that lives in the fleece of sheep.
A ked spends its whole life on one animal and cannot fly at all, which makes it behave more like a louse than the insect it actually is. Shearing removes most of them, and the word belongs to farming rather than to science, where the creature carries a much longer name.
How KED is used
Countable: a ked, two keds. Chiefly in sheep farming.
- The fleece was full of keds and had to be treated.
- A ked cannot leave the animal it was born on.
- Shearing takes most of the keds with the wool.
- The ked looks like a tick and is a fly.
- Two keds on one sheep means a hundred on the flock.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KED
14 longer words begin with KED.
Words ending in KED
Showing 24 of 894 words that end in KED. Useful as a back hook: play KED onto a word already on the board.
Words with KED inside
Showing 24 of 54 words that contain KED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with KED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KED
Common questions about KED
- Is KED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KED, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KED worth?
- KED is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KED mean?
- A wingless fly that lives in the fleece of sheep.
- What letters can be added to KED?
- KED takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of KED:
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