What BAD Means
- adjective: having undesirable or negative qualities“a bad report card”
- adjective: serious or severe“a bad headache”
- adverb: with great intensity (‘bad’ is a nonstandard variant for ‘badly’)“the injury hurt badly”
- adverb: very much; strongly“I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BAD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 D2.
Anagrams of BAD (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BAD
4 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BAD
BAD appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all, and the two and three letter lists. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.