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Is heed a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word heed is a Scrabble US word. The word heed is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word heed is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

EHED,HEED,

3-letter words (2 found)

DEE,EDH,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EE,EH,HE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from heed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of heed

heed ehed heed ehed eehd eehd hede ehde hdee dhee edhe dehe hede ehde hdee dhee edhe dehe eedh eedh edeh deeh edeh deeh

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Definitions and meaning of heed

heed

Etymology

From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiːd/
  • Homophone: he'd
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

heed (uncountable)

  1. Careful attention.

Synonyms

  • (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention

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Verb

heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)

  1. (obsolete) To guard, protect.
  2. (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.

Translations

Anagrams

  • ehed, hede

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).

Alternative forms

  • hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
  • heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
  • hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛːd/, /ˈhɛvəd/, /ˈhɛːvəd/, /hɛvd/, /hɛːvd/

Noun

heed (plural heedes)

  1. The head (top portion of an animal):
    1. A headrest; a place for the head.
    2. A head-covering; headwear or hair.
    3. The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
    4. The horns or antlers of a cervid.
  2. A start or origin:
    1. The top of a waterbody or geographical feature.
    2. One of the lengthwise ends of a geographical feature.
    3. The source of a river; the headwater.
    4. The uppermost point of something; the top.
    5. The outermost extremity of something.
  3. The useful end of a tool.
  4. A rounded bump or boil.
  5. One's ability to survive.
  6. Lack of consideration; impetuousness, rashness.
  7. (by extension) An individual; someone or somebody
  8. (rare) A military force or troop.
Related terms
  • forheed
  • heedles
  • hoggeshed
  • spere-hed
Descendants
  • English: head
    • → Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)
    • Sranan Tongo: ede
  • Geordie English: heed
  • Scots: heid
  • Yola: haade, heade, hade

References

  • p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
  • “hēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.

Etymology 2

From Old English hēafod-, from Proto-West Germanic *haubida- (“main”), derived from the noun *haubid (“head”).

Adjective

heed

  1. main; head, chief, principle
Descendants
  • English: head
  • Scots: heid

Etymology 3

Noun

heed (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hed (“heed”)

Etymology 4

Verb

heed

  1. Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hede.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiːd/
  • Homophones: haade, hea'de, heighed

Noun

heed

  1. heed

Derived terms

  • taake heed

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71

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