Is WAD a Scrabble word?
Yes. WAD is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
Meaning An amorphous, compact mass.
Noun 4 meanings
An amorphous, compact mass.
“Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.”
A substantial pile (normally of money).
“With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.”
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
Verb 4 meanings
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
“She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.”
To wager.
To insert or force a wad into.
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
“to wad a cloak”
Etymology
Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.
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WAD at a glance
WAD has 3 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + D 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #26,309 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -WAD
More endings- TIGHTWAD16
- SWAD8
- BUMWAD14
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