MAUND is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MAUND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAUND?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAUND is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAUND
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MAUND scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAUND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about MAUND
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MAUND mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian Englishhistorical
A traditional unit of weight used across South Asia, historically equivalent to roughly 37 kilograms though the exact value varied by region and era.
Merchants across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh once measured grain, cotton and other bulk goods in maunds long before the metric system took hold, and colonial administrators eventually standardised the unit at about thirty-seven kilograms even though local maunds had ranged more widely before that. Older regional versions of the maund could weigh anywhere from roughly eleven to thirty-seven kilograms depending on the province and the commodity being traded, which made cross-region trade calculations genuinely complicated. British colonial records and older trade histories still use maund when describing quantities of rice, indigo or other goods, so the word survives mainly in historical and Indian English contexts today rather than in everyday shopping.
How MAUND is used
A historical unit of weight from South Asia, met mainly in Indian English, colonial-era records, and translated accounts of regional trade.
- The merchant sold forty maund of rice at the market.
- Colonial records list the indigo harvest by the maund.
- A single maund of cotton varied in weight from region to region.
- The historian converted the old maund figures into kilograms.
- Farmers still refer informally to a maund when weighing grain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAUND and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MAUND
The 5 tiles of MAUND in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with MAUND
12 longer words begin with MAUND.
Shorter words from the letters in MAUND
Common questions about MAUND
- Is MAUND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAUND, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAUND worth?
- MAUND is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAUND mean?
- A traditional unit of weight used across South Asia, historically equivalent to roughly 37 kilograms though the exact value varied by region and era.
- What letters can be added to MAUND?
- MAUND takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAUND:
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