SORD is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SORD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SORD?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SORD is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SORD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SORD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SORD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,106.
What stands out about SORD
- 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 SORD mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A flock of mallard ducks, especially when seen flying together.
Sord is one of the old collective nouns once used by hunters for particular groups of birds, in the same family as a gaggle of geese or a murder of crows, and it applied specifically to mallards. It survives today mainly in lists of collective nouns rather than in ordinary speech.
How SORD is used
Archaic hunting term; found mainly in glossaries of collective nouns.
- A sord of mallards rose suddenly from the reeds.
- Old hunting manuals list a sord as the proper term for grouped mallards.
- He watched a sord wheel low over the marsh at dusk.
- The guide explained why hunters once called it a sord rather than a flock.
- A sord of ducks settled back onto the pond after circling twice.
archaic
A flock of mallard ducks, especially when seen flying together.
Sord is one of the old collective nouns once used by hunters for particular groups of birds, in the same family as a gaggle of geese or a murder of crows, and it applied specifically to mallards. It survives today mainly in lists of collective nouns rather than in ordinary speech.
How SORD is used
Archaic hunting term; found mainly in glossaries of collective nouns.
- A sord of mallards rose suddenly from the reeds.
- Old hunting manuals list a sord as the proper term for grouped mallards.
- He watched a sord wheel low over the marsh at dusk.
- The guide explained why hunters once called it a sord rather than a flock.
- A sord of ducks settled back onto the pond after circling twice.
Written for this site: 2 meanings of SORD and 10 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SORD
The 4 tiles of SORD in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SORD
19 longer words begin with SORD.
Words with SORD inside
18 words contain SORD in the middle. Words that start with SORD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SORD
Common questions about SORD
- Is SORD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SORD, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SORD worth?
- SORD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SORD mean?
- A flock of mallard ducks, especially when seen flying together.
- What letters can be added to SORD?
- SORD takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SORD:
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