SPAYD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. SPAYD 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SPAYD?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPAYD is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPAYD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
spaydsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SPAYD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SPAYD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SPAYD mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A male deer in its third year of growth.
Old hunting glossaries kept a separate name for almost every stage of a stag's growth, running from the young pricket up to the fully antlered mature animal, and spayd, also spelled spayad, marked the point reached in the third season. Such fine distinctions mattered to huntsmen who judged an animal by its antlers rather than by counting rings the way a forester might judge a tree. The word has no everyday equivalent left in modern English, since nobody now names deer ages one by one. Few readers meet spayd outside old hunting manuals today.
How SPAYD is used
Historical hunting term, rarely used outside glossaries of deer terminology.
- The huntsman named the animal a spayd by its third set of antlers.
- A spayd was neither young pricket nor mature stag.
- Old hunting books list the spayd among the ages of a deer.
- By the time a deer becomes a spayd its antlers have grown further.
- The word spayd is met only in older deer-hunting glossaries.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPAYD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SPAYD
The 5 tiles of SPAYD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SPAYD
1 longer words begin with SPAYD.
Shorter words from the letters in SPAYD
Common questions about SPAYD
- Is SPAYD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SPAYD is not in it.
- How many points is SPAYD worth?
- SPAYD is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPAYD mean?
- A male deer in its third year of growth.
- What letters can be added to SPAYD?
- SPAYD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SPAYD:
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