/hɑd/
noun

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.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Meaning A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.

Noun 4 meanings

  1. A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.

  2. The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.

  3. A blowpipe used by a pewterer.

  4. A bookmaker's bag.

Definitions adapted from Wiktionary: hod via Kaikki/Wiktextract, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where it comes from

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

Same last three letters as HOD. This is a spelling match, so not every word here rhymes.

  • METHOD12
  • SHOD8
  • ROUGHSHOD17
  • SLIPSHOD14
  • EPHOD11
  • UNSHOD10
  • RESHOD10
  • HORSESHOD16
  • MICROMETHOD21
  • MISSHOD13

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