KYDST is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. KYDST 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KYDST?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KYDST is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KYDST
No single letter turns KYDST into another word.
How KYDST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KYDST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does KYDST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To make known or reveal: the archaic second person singular past tense of kythe (also spelled kithe), used with thou in early English verse.
Poets writing in an older form of English used kydst as the thou-form of kythe, so a line reading thou kydst meant something like you made known or you appeared. The spelling looks strange today because English verbs no longer change form for a singular you, and because the base verb kythe itself dropped out of common use centuries ago. Readers meet kydst almost only in editions of Renaissance poetry or in word lists built from old texts, never in ordinary prose.
How KYDST is used
Found only in reprints and discussions of archaic English verbs, never in modern sentences apart from quoting kydst itself.
- The old edition prints thou kydst where a modern text would simply say you appeared.
- A footnote explains that kydst is the archaic past tense of kythe.
- Students stumble over kydst the first time they meet it in a Renaissance poem.
- The glossary lists kydst next to other frozen verb forms like wast and hadst.
- He copied the line with kydst exactly as it stood in the sixteenth-century text.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KYDST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in KYDST
Common questions about KYDST
- Is KYDST valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KYDST is not in it.
- How many points is KYDST worth?
- KYDST is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KYDST mean?
- To make known or reveal: the archaic second person singular past tense of kythe (also spelled kithe), used with thou in early English verse.
- What letters can be added to KYDST?
- No single letter can be added to KYDST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KYDST:
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