TED is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. TED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TED?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TED is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in TED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What does TED mean in Scrabble?
verb
To spread out hay so that it dries.
Ted is among the oldest farming verbs in English and survives in the name of the machine that does the job, a tedder. It came from Old Norse, like most of the vocabulary of hay-making.
How TED is used
Tedded, tedding. Chiefly agricultural.
- They ted the field the morning after cutting.
- The word ted gives the machine called a tedder.
- Tedding twice in a wet week is normal.
- Hay is tedded so the underside dries too.
- The verb ted came into English from Old Norse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TED
23 longer words begin with TED.
Words ending in TED
Showing 24 of 4181 words that end in TED. Useful as a back hook: play TED onto a word already on the board.
Words with TED inside
Showing 24 of 424 words that contain TED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TED
Common questions about TED
- Is TED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TED, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TED worth?
- TED is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TED mean?
- To spread out hay so that it dries.
- What letters can be added to TED?
- TED takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of TED:
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