BOLSON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BOLSON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOLSON?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOLSON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOLSON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bolsonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOLSON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BOLSON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 221,736.
What does BOLSON mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A broad, flat desert basin ringed by mountains, with no outlet for the water that drains into it.
Erosion from the surrounding heights slowly fills a bolson with sediment, and because nothing carries the runoff onward to a river or the sea, rainwater simply pools, evaporates or sinks into the ground where it lands. Geographers and geologists borrowed the term from Spanish, and it is used mainly for landforms of this kind in the arid parts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Over long periods, a bolson can build up a thick, level bed of sediment, and its lowest spot sometimes turns into a shallow, temporary lake or a dry salt flat. The word gives geologists a precise name for this closed-off landform, distinguishing it from an ordinary valley whose streams eventually reach a river system.
How BOLSON is used
A regional geographic and geological term for the arid southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
- The map marked the dry bolson as an area with no river outlet.
- Rain rarely fills the bolson enough to form more than a shallow, temporary lake.
- Geologists studied the sediment layers built up over centuries in the bolson.
- The desert town sits at the edge of a wide, flat bolson.
- A ring of low mountains encloses the bolson on every side.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOLSON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOLSON
1 longer words begin with BOLSON.
Shorter words from the letters in BOLSON
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Common questions about BOLSON
- Is BOLSON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOLSON, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOLSON worth?
- BOLSON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOLSON mean?
- A broad, flat desert basin ringed by mountains, with no outlet for the water that drains into it.
- What letters can be added to BOLSON?
- BOLSON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BOLSON:
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