MAIDHOOD is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. MAIDHOOD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAIDHOOD?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAIDHOOD is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAIDHOOD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
maidhoodsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAIDHOOD scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MAIDHOOD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MAIDHOOD has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MAIDHOOD mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicrare
The state or time of being a young unmarried woman.
Maidhood is an old-fashioned word that belongs to romances and period writing about girlhood and innocence. Modern speakers rarely use maidhood, and the longer maidenhood is the form most readers expect.
How MAIDHOOD is used
Archaic and literary, found in old poems and novels about a young woman's life before marriage.
- In her maidhood she had lived in a small village by the sea.
- The ballad sings of lost love and the sweetness of maidhood.
- He remembered the days of her maidhood with great tenderness.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAIDHOOD and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MAIDHOOD
1 longer words begin with MAIDHOOD.
Shorter words from the letters in MAIDHOOD
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Common questions about MAIDHOOD
- Is MAIDHOOD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAIDHOOD, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAIDHOOD worth?
- MAIDHOOD is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAIDHOOD mean?
- The state or time of being a young unmarried woman.
- What letters can be added to MAIDHOOD?
- MAIDHOOD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MAIDHOOD:
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