SHEND is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SHEND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHEND?
| 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 SHEND is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHEND
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHEND scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHEND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does SHEND mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To put someone to shame, disgrace, or ruin, an archaic verb now found almost only in older English writing.
Shend once covered a wide range of harsh actions, from scolding and shaming a person to damaging or destroying an object, and it shares the same old root as the word shame. Writers of Middle and early modern English used shend freely, but the verb faded from ordinary speech centuries ago and now appears only when authors deliberately reach for archaic language. Meeting the word today almost always means reading poetry, scripture, or fiction written in a self-consciously old-fashioned style.
How SHEND is used
Archaic; encountered in older English texts and deliberately old-fashioned writing rather than in current speech.
- The knight feared the scandal would shend his family's name forever.
- In the old poem, the traitor is warned that his deeds will shend him before all men.
- To shend a comrade in public was considered a grave insult.
- The chronicle warns that pride will shend even the mightiest king.
- She translated the archaic verb shend as to disgrace in her footnote.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHEND and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHEND
The 5 tiles of SHEND in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHEND
2 longer words begin with SHEND.
Words ending in SHEND
1 words end in SHEND. Useful as a back hook: play SHEND onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHEND inside
2 words contain SHEND in the middle. Words that start with SHEND are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHEND
Common questions about SHEND
- Is SHEND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHEND, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHEND worth?
- SHEND is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHEND mean?
- To put someone to shame, disgrace, or ruin, an archaic verb now found almost only in older English writing.
- What letters can be added to SHEND?
- SHEND takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHEND:
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