ROIDS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. ROIDS 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 6 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept ROIDS?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROIDS is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROIDS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ROIDS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROIDS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does ROIDS mean in Scrabble?
noun
slang
Anabolic steroids, in gym slang.
Roids is clipped from the end of the word rather than the front, which is part of why it sounds so casual. It is nearly always said about somebody else and rarely admiringly, and roid rage — a temper blamed on the drugs — is the compound most people have actually met.
How ROIDS is used
Plural only: on roids. Informal and usually disapproving.
- Half the gym assumed he was on roids and nobody asked.
- Roids explain the shoulders and not the temper.
- The word roids is an accusation more often than a description.
- Roids and rage are joined in the compound that reached the newspapers.
- Nobody says roids about themselves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROIDS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROIDS
The 5 tiles of ROIDS in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in ROIDS
Showing 24 of 57 words that end in ROIDS. Useful as a back hook: play ROIDS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in ROIDS
Common questions about ROIDS
- Is ROIDS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROIDS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROIDS worth?
- ROIDS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROIDS mean?
- Anabolic steroids, in gym slang.
- What letters can be added to ROIDS?
- ROIDS takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROIDS:
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