Is HOD a Scrabble word?
Yes. HOD is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends.
Meaning A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
Noun 4 meanings
A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
A bookmaker's bag.
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots hod (“to jog along on horseback”), probably related to hotch (“(verb) to move up and down jerkily, bob; to jog along on horseback; to hop like a frog; to fidget; to shrug; to heave with laughter; to cause to move jerkily; to shift in a sitting position to make room for others; to be overrun with; to swarm; (figuratively) to be angry; (noun) a jerk, jolt; a shrug; a fidget, twitch; a swarm of vermin; large, ungainly woman; untidy woman (figuratively) a hostile encounter, clash; state of disorder and filth, mess”) (whence English hotch (“to move irregularly up and down; to swarm”) (chiefly Scotland)), from Late Middle English hotchen (“to move jerkily, jolt; to attack (someone) (?)”), from Anglo-Norman hocher (“to shake (something) to and fro, jostle; to attack”) and Middle French hocher, Middle French, Old French hochier (“to shake (something) to and fro, jostle; to be unstable or wobbly, shake”) (modern French hocher (“to nod the head”)), from Frankish *hotsōn, *hottisōn, from *hottōn (“to shake; to toss”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ket- or *kwēt- (“to rock back and forth; to shake”), probably originally onomatopoeic.
HOD at a glance
HOD has 3 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + D 2) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #47,418 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -HOD
More endings- METHOD12
- SHOD8
- ROUGHSHOD17
- SLIPSHOD14
- EPHOD11
- UNSHOD10
- RESHOD10
- HORSESHOD16
- MICROMETHOD21
- MISSHOD13
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