OLD is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. OLD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OLD?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OLD is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 13 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OLD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OLD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OLD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,263.
What stands out about OLD
- The same 3 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 OLD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Existing since a distant or unspecified time in the past — the plain, all-purpose word for age, with none of the sense of improvement that aged can carry.
Where aged often suggests that time has added value, as with a violin or a cheese, old is the neutral default that applies just as readily to a building, a joke or an argument as to a person. Old keeps an irregular comparative pair in one narrow use: elder and eldest are for people within a family, while older and oldest cover everything else. That split is disappearing, and nobody is putting up much of a defence.
How OLD is used
Before and after the noun. Comparative older or elder.
- The old house had been empty for a decade.
- His elder brother is not his oldest relative.
- The word old keeps two comparatives for different jobs.
- An older building is not always an old one.
- Elder and eldest are losing ground to older and oldest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OLD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OLD
The 3 tiles of OLD in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with OLD
23 longer words begin with OLD.
Words ending in OLD
Showing 24 of 136 words that end in OLD. Useful as a back hook: play OLD onto a word already on the board.
Words with OLD inside
Showing 24 of 558 words that contain OLD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OLD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OLD
Common questions about OLD
- Is OLD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OLD, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OLD worth?
- OLD is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OLD mean?
- Existing since a distant or unspecified time in the past — the plain, all-purpose word for age, with none of the sense of improvement that aged can carry.
- What letters can be added to OLD?
- OLD takes 13 hooks: 10 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OLD:
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