POD is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. POD 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 POD?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POD is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POD scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in POD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,527.
What does POD mean in Scrabble?
noun
A long seed case that splits open, as on a pea plant.
Pod does two jobs that look unrelated and are: the seed case, and a group of whales or dolphins. The second is nineteenth-century and nobody knows where it came from, which is unusual for a word that specific and that recent.
How POD is used
Countable: a pod, two pods.
- The pod splits along one side when it dries.
- A pod of dolphins followed the boat for an hour.
- Peas straight from the pod taste of something else entirely.
- The word pod for a group of whales has no known origin.
- Two pods on the same plant ripened a fortnight apart.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POD
The 3 tiles of POD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POD
Showing 24 of 110 words that begin with POD.
Words ending in POD
Showing 24 of 64 words that end in POD. Useful as a back hook: play POD onto a word already on the board.
Words with POD inside
Showing 24 of 262 words that contain POD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with POD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in POD
Common questions about POD
- Is POD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POD, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POD worth?
- POD is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POD mean?
- A long seed case that splits open, as on a pea plant.
- What letters can be added to POD?
- POD takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of POD:
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