OLDE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. OLDE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OLDE?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OLDE is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OLDE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How OLDE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in OLDE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,553.
What stands out about OLDE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 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 OLDE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Old — in a spelling used to suggest quaintness.
Nobody ever wrote it this way in earnest: the final letter had gone silent before printing arrived, and olde as we meet it was invented in the nineteenth century to make a tea shop look older than it was. It is one of very few English words that exist purely to signal a period they do not belong to.
How OLDE is used
Before a noun only — ye olde shoppe. Always ironic or commercial in modern use.
- The sign says ye olde and the building went up in 1974.
- Olde on a pub front is a promise nobody is expected to believe.
- He collects photographs of shops with olde in the name.
- The word olde is younger than most of the things it describes.
- Nothing genuinely old is ever labelled olde.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OLDE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OLDE
The 4 tiles of OLDE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with OLDE
6 longer words begin with OLDE.
Words ending in OLDE
1 words end in OLDE. Useful as a back hook: play OLDE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OLDE inside
Showing 24 of 222 words that contain OLDE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OLDE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OLDE
Common questions about OLDE
- Is OLDE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OLDE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OLDE worth?
- OLDE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OLDE mean?
- Old — in a spelling used to suggest quaintness.
- What letters can be added to OLDE?
- OLDE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of OLDE:
Open OLDE in the Word Finder