What SPUD Means
- noun: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
- noun: a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- verb: initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum“The well was spudded in April”
- verb: produce buds, branches, or germinate“the potatoes sprouted”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SPUD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 U1 D2.
Anagrams of SPUD (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SPUD
9 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 (2)
Longer Words Containing SPUD
SPUD 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.