SYLVAN is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SYLVAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYLVAN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYLVAN is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYLVAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sylvansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SYLVAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SYLVAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What stands out about SYLVAN
- SYLVAN gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SYLVAN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Of, in or typical of woods and forests.
Sylvan is a literary word for anything that belongs to the woods, from shaded glades to the creatures that live there. It also carries a gentle sense of rural peace, so a sylvan scene is usually pictured as green, quiet and unspoiled. It comes from the Latin word for forest, and the same root gives the name Pennsylvania. As a noun it can mean a woodland spirit or a dweller in the forest.
How SYLVAN is used
Literary and descriptive; common in poetry, travel writing and nature description.
- The inn stood in a sylvan setting far from the road.
- Painters loved the sylvan light of the old park.
- A sylvan hush lay over the valley at dusk.
- The poem pictures a sylvan stream under tall oaks.
- They rented a cabin in sylvan surroundings.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYLVAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYLVAN
5 longer words begin with SYLVAN.
Shorter words from the letters in SYLVAN
Common questions about SYLVAN
- Is SYLVAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYLVAN, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYLVAN worth?
- SYLVAN is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYLVAN mean?
- Of, in or typical of woods and forests.
- What letters can be added to SYLVAN?
- SYLVAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SYLVAN:
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