What SKID Means
- verb: slide without control“the car skidded in the curve on the wet road”
- verb: elevate onto skids
- noun: one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- noun: a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SKID is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 K5 I1 D2.
Anagrams of SKID (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SKID
11 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 (6)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing SKID
SKID appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.