WED is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. WED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WED?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WED is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does WED mean in Scrabble?
verb
To marry somebody, in a formal or headline register.
Wed survives in two places and almost nowhere else: legal language and newspaper headlines, where it fits a column that the ordinary word would not. The two past forms do different jobs — being wedded to an idea is figurative and never means married at all.
How WED is used
Transitive and intransitive. The past is wed or wedded.
- The headline says wed because marry would not fit.
- They wed in a registry office with two witnesses.
- He is wedded to a method that stopped working years ago.
- The word wed survives in law and in headlines.
- Wedded and wed are used for different things.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WED
The 3 tiles of WED in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WED
Showing 24 of 30 words that begin with WED.
Words ending in WED
Showing 24 of 291 words that end in WED. Useful as a back hook: play WED onto a word already on the board.
Words with WED inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain WED somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WED
Common questions about WED
- Is WED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WED, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WED worth?
- WED is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WED mean?
- To marry somebody, in a formal or headline register.
- What letters can be added to WED?
- WED takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WED:
Open WED in the Word Finder