SELD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. SELD 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 5 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SELD?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SELD is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SELD
No single letter turns SELD into another word.
How SELD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SELD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about SELD
- 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 SELD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicobsolete
Rare, uncommon, or unusual.
Seld is an old English adjective related to the word seldom, and it was once used to describe anything met with only occasionally rather than every day. The word dropped out of ordinary use centuries ago, so it now survives mainly in older texts and in glossaries of archaic English rather than in living speech.
How SELD is used
Archaic and obsolete; met only in older texts and specialist word lists, never in current speech.
- The old chronicle described the comet as a seld and fearful sight.
- Such kindness from a stranger was seld in those hard years.
- The scholar footnoted seld as an archaic word for rare.
- A seld visitor to the village always drew a crowd.
- He wrote seld where a modern writer would simply put rare.
archaicobsolete
Rare, uncommon, or unusual.
Seld is an old English adjective related to the word seldom, and it was once used to describe anything met with only occasionally rather than every day. The word dropped out of ordinary use centuries ago, so it now survives mainly in older texts and in glossaries of archaic English rather than in living speech.
How SELD is used
Archaic and obsolete; met only in older texts and specialist word lists, never in current speech.
- The old chronicle described the comet as a seld and fearful sight.
- Such kindness from a stranger was seld in those hard years.
- The scholar footnoted seld as an archaic word for rare.
- A seld visitor to the village always drew a crowd.
- He wrote seld where a modern writer would simply put rare.
Written for this site: 2 meanings of SELD and 10 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SELD
The 4 tiles of SELD in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SELD
6 longer words begin with SELD.
Words with SELD inside
1 words contain SELD in the middle. Words that start with SELD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SELD
Common questions about SELD
- Is SELD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SELD is not in it.
- How many points is SELD worth?
- SELD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SELD mean?
- Rare, uncommon, or unusual.
- What letters can be added to SELD?
- No single letter can be added to SELD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SELD:
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