SIDHE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SIDHE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SIDHE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SIDHE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIDHE
No single letter turns SIDHE into another word.
How SIDHE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SIDHE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SIDHE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 SIDHE mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryIrish
In Irish folklore, the sidhe are the fairy folk said to dwell beneath ancient earthen mounds and hills.
Storytellers in Ireland long linked the sidhe to the mounds and raths scattered across the countryside, treating each grassy hill as a possible doorway into their world. The word is often traced to an older belief that the sidhe were the diminished remnant of an earlier race of gods, driven underground rather than defeated outright. Irish poets, including William Butler Yeats, borrowed the sidhe for verse about a hidden world lying just beneath the ordinary one.
How SIDHE is used
Encountered mainly in Irish folklore, mythology retellings and literary writing rather than everyday conversation.
- The old woman warned the children never to dig into a hill said to belong to the sidhe.
- Local legend claimed the sidhe rode out from the mound on certain moonlit nights.
- His poem describes a traveler lured away by music of the sidhe.
- Farmers in the valley left the ring of stones untouched, fearing it marked a home of the sidhe.
- The museum exhibit paired old photographs of the mounds with tales of the sidhe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIDHE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SIDHE
The 5 tiles of SIDHE in a different order — 4 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SIDHE
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Common questions about SIDHE
- Is SIDHE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIDHE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIDHE worth?
- SIDHE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIDHE mean?
- In Irish folklore, the sidhe are the fairy folk said to dwell beneath ancient earthen mounds and hills.
- What letters can be added to SIDHE?
- No single letter can be added to SIDHE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SIDHE:
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