ODA is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. ODA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ODA?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ODA is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ODA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ODA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ODA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What does ODA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A room in a Turkish house or in a harem.
Oda is Turkish for a room and reached English through nineteenth-century writing about the Ottoman court. It survives in odalisque, the term for a woman living in one, which is far commoner in English than the room ever was.
How ODA is used
Countable: an oda, two odas. Historical.
- The oda is simply a room and the word means nothing more.
- An oda in Turkish is any room at all.
- The word oda gives English odalisque.
- Two odas opening onto the same courtyard.
- English met oda through travel writing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ODA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ODA
The 3 tiles of ODA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ODA
13 longer words begin with ODA.
Words ending in ODA
5 words end in ODA. Useful as a back hook: play ODA onto a word already on the board.
Words with ODA inside
Showing 24 of 257 words that contain ODA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ODA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ODA
Common questions about ODA
- Is ODA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ODA, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ODA worth?
- ODA is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ODA mean?
- A room in a Turkish house or in a harem.
- What letters can be added to ODA?
- ODA takes 5 hooks: 2 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ODA:
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