COLLOP is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. COLLOP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLLOP?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLLOP is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLLOP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COLLOP scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in COLLOP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,774 thousand.
What does COLLOP mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicregional
A small slice of meat, or loosely a piece of flesh or any small portion.
In older cookery a collop was a thin cut of meat, usually fried or stewed, and the Scottish dish of minced collops still keeps the word alive. The term gives its name to Collop Monday, the day before Shrove Tuesday, when households once used up their meat before Lent. Poets sometimes stretched the word to mean a bit of living flesh.
How COLLOP is used
Old-fashioned, found in recipes and dialect from Scotland and northern England.
- The cook fried a collop of venison over the fire.
- Minced collop was served with potatoes and a splash of gravy.
- On Collop Monday the family finished the last of the winter meat.
- A single collop of beef lay on the plate.
- The butcher cut each collop thin and even.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLLOP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLLOP
1 longer words begin with COLLOP.
Shorter words from the letters in COLLOP
Common questions about COLLOP
- Is COLLOP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLLOP, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLLOP worth?
- COLLOP is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLLOP mean?
- A small slice of meat, or loosely a piece of flesh or any small portion.
- What letters can be added to COLLOP?
- COLLOP takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COLLOP:
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