TEIID is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. TEIID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TEIID?
| 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 TEIID is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEIID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
teiidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TEIID scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TEIID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What stands out about TEIID
- TEIID runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TEIID mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A lizard belonging to the family Teiidae, a group of New World lizards that includes whiptails, racerunners and the caiman lizard.
A teiid is recognised by large, squarish scales across the belly set against much smaller, grainy scales on the back, a combination herpetologists use to separate the family from similar-looking lizards. Most members of the group are fast, ground-dwelling hunters found from the southern United States down through Central and South America. The term is a technical shorthand used in zoology rather than a name most people meet outside a field guide or a museum label.
How TEIID is used
A technical zoological term, met mainly in field guides and herpetology rather than in everyday speech.
- The whiptail lizard darting across the trail is a common teiid of the American Southwest.
- Herpetologists count the belly scales to confirm that a specimen is a teiid.
- The caiman lizard is an unusually large teiid that hunts snails in South American wetlands.
- Field guides group racerunners and whiptails together as teiid lizards.
- A teiid basking on a rock will vanish into the brush at the first sign of movement.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEIID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TEIID
1 longer words begin with TEIID.
Shorter words from the letters in TEIID
Common questions about TEIID
- Is TEIID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TEIID, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TEIID worth?
- TEIID is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEIID mean?
- A lizard belonging to the family Teiidae, a group of New World lizards that includes whiptails, racerunners and the caiman lizard.
- What letters can be added to TEIID?
- TEIID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TEIID:
Open TEIID in the Word Finder