What DREAD Means
- noun: fearful expectation or anticipation“the student looked around the examination room with apprehension”
- verb: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of“I fear the winters in Moscow”
- adjective: causing fear or dread or terror“the awful war”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DREAD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 R1 E1 A1 D2.
Anagrams of DREAD (5)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DREAD
27 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.
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing DREAD
DREAD appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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