Is ODES a Valid Scrabble Word?

Scrabble validity check · NWL2023 + CSW21 · French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German & Portuguese dictionaries

Yes — ODES is a valid Scrabble word worth 5 points.

ODES appears in NWL2023 (Tournament Word List) and CSW21 (Collins Scrabble Words).

ODES — Definition

<ode=n>

Part of speech: a noun

ODES — Scrabble Points & Letter Breakdown

ODES is worth 5 pointsin Scrabble, calculated as the sum of each letter's tile value:

Letter	Count	Points each	Subtotal
D	1	2	2
E	1	1	1
O	1	1	1
S	1	1	1
Total			5

ODES in Every Dictionary & Language

Scrabble dictionaries are language-specific — a word can be unplayable in English but perfectly legal in another language's game. Here is how ODES fares across all eight:

Dictionary	Language / region	ODES valid?
NWL2023	English — North America	Yes
CSW21	English — international	Yes
ODS9	French	Yes
FISE	Spanish	No
Zingarelli	Italian	No
OpenTaal	Dutch	Yes
wordIzy word list *	German	Yes
wordIzy word list *	Portuguese	Yes

* German and Portuguese have no freely-licensed official Scrabble dictionary — wordIzy uses its own filtered word lists (the same lists that power the German and Portuguese games on this site). Matching follows the site-wide convention of stripping accents (é → e), so ELEVE matches ÉLÈVE in the French ODS9.

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