ZED is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ZED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZED?
| 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: 55 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZED is to know. It scores 13 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZED scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ZED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What stands out about ZED
- ZED scores 13 points, more than twice the average for a 3-letter word (6.3).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ZED mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
The name of the letter Z.
Britain, Ireland, Australia and most of the Commonwealth say zed; the United States says zee. The split goes back to the eighteenth century, when American spelling reformers picked the rhyming form to match bee, cee and dee. It survives as one of the quickest ways to place a speaker on the map: nobody switches by accident.
How ZED is used
Countable when you name the letter itself — a zed, two zeds. Also used attributively in zed bend for a sharp double turn in a road.
- She spelled the surname out and finished with a firm zed.
- The road narrows into a zed bend just past the bridge.
- He wrote his initials as a zed and a small k.
- Ask a Canadian to say the last letter and you get zed every time.
- Two zeds in one word is unusual in English.
- The teacher corrected him: in this country it is zed, not zee.
- A tidy row of zeds ran down the margin of the page.
- From the air the runway markings looked like a giant zed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZED and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZED
5 longer words begin with ZED.
Words ending in ZED
Showing 24 of 1347 words that end in ZED. Useful as a back hook: play ZED onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZED inside
16 words contain ZED in the middle. Words that start with ZED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZED
Common questions about ZED
- Is ZED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZED, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZED worth?
- ZED is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZED mean?
- The name of the letter Z.
- What letters can be added to ZED?
- ZED takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ZED:
Open ZED in the Word Finder