Hideous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 141 anagrams from letters in hideous (dehiosu).
1275-1325; Middle English hidous Old French hisdos, equivalent to hisde horror, fright (perhaps Old High German *egisida, akin to egisôn, agison to frighten) + -os Examples for hideous
To be clear, this account is in no way meant to excuse these hideous attacks—only perhaps to explain them. There was a hideous fascination in this spectacle stretched before us. With this hideous bushy outcrop, the beard has reached its end game. It is, indeed, difficult to imagine what hideous beings these three sisters were. Alberich was the most hideous of all the black, ugly little Nibelungs. On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze. The thing thrust so unexpectedly before her eyes was hideous in the extreme. Is it that it seems a strange and hideous dream, from which we will awake and rub our eyes? The star is not entirely to blame for his hideous, hirsute transgression. These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.