TEAD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 5 points
It depends on the list you play by. TEAD 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 TEAD?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TEAD is to know. It scores 5 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEAD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TEAD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TEAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,513.
What stands out about TEAD
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 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 TEAD mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterarypoetic
An old poetic word for a torch, especially one made from resinous pine wood.
Tead descends from Latin taeda, the term Romans used for a pitch-soaked pine branch carried as a light source after dark. Poets bringing the term into English kept it strictly for verse describing torchlit processions and wedding rites, never letting it drift into ordinary prose. Spenser and his contemporaries reached for tead whenever a plain flame felt too plain a word for the scene they were describing.
How TEAD is used
Archaic and literary; found in older poetry, not in ordinary speech.
- The poet spoke of a tead burning low in the tower window.
- In the old verse, a tead lit the way through the dark hall.
- She carried a tead of resinous pine to guide her through the cave.
- The wedding procession was led by bearers holding a tead aloft.
- A single tead flickered beside the sleeping knight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TEAD
The 4 tiles of TEAD in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TEAD
3 longer words begin with TEAD.
Words ending in TEAD
11 words end in TEAD. Useful as a back hook: play TEAD onto a word already on the board.
Words with TEAD inside
Showing 24 of 51 words that contain TEAD somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TEAD are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TEAD
Common questions about TEAD
- Is TEAD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TEAD is not in it.
- How many points is TEAD worth?
- TEAD is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEAD mean?
- An old poetic word for a torch, especially one made from resinous pine wood.
- What letters can be added to TEAD?
- TEAD takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TEAD:
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