MAYED is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. MAYED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MAYED?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MAYED is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MAYED
No single letter turns MAYED into another word.
How MAYED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MAYED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does MAYED mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To have gathered flowers or hawthorn blossom in springtime, as part of old May Day customs.
Mayed is the past tense of an old verb to may, meaning to go out and gather blossom for May Day, and has nothing to do with the modal verb may about permission or possibility. The custom it describes, called maying, was once widespread in English villages before it faded into folklore.
How MAYED is used
Archaic; found in older accounts of folk custom rather than in current speech.
- The whole village mayed at dawn on the first of the month.
- Old records say the queen mayed with all her court.
- They mayed every spring until the custom died out.
- The chronicle notes that the young people mayed near the wood.
- Having mayed since sunrise, the party returned laden with hawthorn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MAYED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in MAYED
2 words end in MAYED. Useful as a back hook: play MAYED onto a word already on the board.
Words with MAYED inside
2 words contain MAYED in the middle. Words that start with MAYED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MAYED
Common questions about MAYED
- Is MAYED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MAYED, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MAYED worth?
- MAYED is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MAYED mean?
- To have gathered flowers or hawthorn blossom in springtime, as part of old May Day customs.
- What letters can be added to MAYED?
- No single letter can be added to MAYED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MAYED:
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