MAIDENHOOD is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. MAIDENHOOD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAIDENHOOD?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAIDENHOOD is to know. It scores 17 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAIDENHOOD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
maidenhoodsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAIDENHOOD scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in MAIDENHOOD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MAIDENHOOD has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MAIDENHOOD mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryarchaic
The time or condition of being a young unmarried woman.
Maidenhood looks back on girlhood and the years before marriage, often with fondness. Poets and novelists of earlier centuries used it more often than writers do now.
How MAIDENHOOD is used
Maidenhood is literary and old-fashioned and is rare in everyday speech.
- She spent her maidenhood in a quiet country house.
- The novel opens at the end of the heroine's maidenhood.
- Songs of maidenhood filled the old ballad book.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAIDENHOOD and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAIDENHOOD
1 longer words begin with MAIDENHOOD.
Shorter words from the letters in MAIDENHOOD
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Common questions about MAIDENHOOD
- Is MAIDENHOOD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAIDENHOOD, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAIDENHOOD worth?
- MAIDENHOOD is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAIDENHOOD mean?
- The time or condition of being a young unmarried woman.
- What letters can be added to MAIDENHOOD?
- MAIDENHOOD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of MAIDENHOOD:
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