What NEED Means
- noun: a condition requiring relief“she satisfied his need for affection”
- noun: anything that is necessary but lacking“he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs”
- verb: require as useful, just, or proper“It takes nerve to do what she did”
- verb: have need of“This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NEED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 E1 D2.
Anagrams of NEED (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NEED
12 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.
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing NEED
NEED appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
GRATINEEDKNEEDNEEDEDNEEDERNEEDERSNEEDFIRENEEDFIRESNEEDFULNEEDFULLYNEEDFULSNEEDIERNEEDIESTNEEDILYNEEDINESSNEEDINGNEEDLENEEDLECORDNEEDLEDNEEDLEFISHNEEDLEFULNEEDLEFULSNEEDLELIKENEEDLERNEEDLERSNEEDLESNEEDLESSNEEDLESSLYNEEDLEWORKNEEDLIERNEEDLIESTNEEDLINGNEEDLINGSNEEDLYNEEDMENTNEEDMENTSNEEDSNEEDYPRENEEDSNEEDUNNEEDED
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