PAD is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. PAD 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 PAD?
| 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 PAD is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PAD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does PAD mean in Scrabble?
noun
A piece of soft material used for protection or comfort.
Pad covers the object, the sound of a soft footfall, and a place to live, and the three are unrelated to one another. The sense of padding a text with unnecessary words is nineteenth-century and is now the commonest figurative use of all.
How PAD is used
Countable: a pad, two pads. Also a verb.
- The pad under the carpet is what makes it feel expensive.
- The cat padded across the table and knocked nothing over.
- He padded the report to twice the length asked for.
- A writing pad of that size is hard to find now.
- They call the flat a pad and have done since 1968.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PAD
The 3 tiles of PAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PAD
Showing 24 of 82 words that begin with PAD.
Words ending in PAD
21 words end in PAD. Useful as a back hook: play PAD onto a word already on the board.
Words with PAD inside
Showing 24 of 144 words that contain PAD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PAD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PAD
Common questions about PAD
- Is PAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAD, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAD worth?
- PAD is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAD mean?
- A piece of soft material used for protection or comfort.
- What letters can be added to PAD?
- PAD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PAD:
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