ORD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. ORD is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ORD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ORD is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 8 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ORD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ORD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ORD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What stands out about ORD
- 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 ORD mean in Scrabble?
noun
obsolete
An obsolete word for the point of a weapon, or more broadly a sharp edge or point.
Ord named the business end of a spear or blade in early English, before point took over the role in everyday speech. Writers also stretched the word to mean a beginning or starting edge, since the point of a weapon marked where the real danger began.
How ORD is used
Survives only in glossaries of obsolete English and in place names, not in living usage.
- The old poem describes the ord of the spear gleaming in torchlight.
- A blacksmith sharpened the ord before the blade left his forge.
- The historian explained that ord once meant the tip of any weapon.
- Soldiers in the tale tested the ord against a shield.
- The glossary lists ord next to point as its modern equivalent.
- The knight's sword had an ord worn smooth from long use.
- Scholars trace several place names back to this old sense of ord.
- The manuscript uses ord where a modern reader would expect point.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ORD and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see ORD
- Ord survives today mainly inside English place names, where it once marked a sharp promontory or ridge.
- The root behind ord also produced other obsolete English terms for edges and starting points in early texts.
Anagrams of ORD
The 3 tiles of ORD in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ORD
Showing 24 of 67 words that begin with ORD.
Words ending in ORD
Showing 24 of 96 words that end in ORD. Useful as a back hook: play ORD onto a word already on the board.
Words with ORD inside
Showing 24 of 690 words that contain ORD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ORD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ORD
Common questions about ORD
- Is ORD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ORD is not in it.
- How many points is ORD worth?
- ORD is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ORD mean?
- An obsolete word for the point of a weapon, or more broadly a sharp edge or point.
- What letters can be added to ORD?
- ORD takes 8 hooks: 6 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ORD:
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