MED is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. MED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MED?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MED is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MED
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
medsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in MED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does MED mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
Medical, or a medicine.
Med is clipped in two directions at once: med school is medical, and taking your meds is medicine. American usage carries both and British usage mostly the second, which is why the phrase about med school still sounds imported in Britain.
How MED is used
Countable in the plural: meds. Attributive in med school.
- He is in his third year of med school.
- She takes her meds at eight and forgets by nine.
- A med student sees more in a month than most people in a life.
- The word med is clipped from two different longer ones.
- Two meds at the same time and neither of them helping.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MED
Showing 24 of 244 words that begin with MED.
Words ending in MED
Showing 24 of 571 words that end in MED. Useful as a back hook: play MED onto a word already on the board.
Words with MED inside
Showing 24 of 224 words that contain MED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with MED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in MED
Common questions about MED
- Is MED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MED, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MED worth?
- MED is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MED mean?
- Medical, or a medicine.
- What letters can be added to MED?
- MED takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of MED:
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