ELT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 3 points
It depends on the list you play by. ELT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 3 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ELT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 12 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELT
Back hooks — 1
eltsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ELT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ELT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561.
What stands out about ELT
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ELT mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A young sow, not yet bred, that pig keepers are raising toward breeding age.
Elt is a farming word for a young sow being raised toward breeding age, before she has produced her first litter of piglets. Pig breeders and older rural speech use elt where a general reader might simply say young sow.
How ELT is used
Dialect and farming term, used mainly by pig breeders and in rural speech.
- The farmer separated the elt from the older sows.
- He bought a young elt to start breeding next spring.
- The elt grew quickly on the new feed mixture.
- She kept careful records of each elt's weight gain.
- The prize elt was entered in the county livestock show.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ELT
The 3 tiles of ELT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ELT
3 longer words begin with ELT.
Words ending in ELT
Showing 24 of 49 words that end in ELT. Useful as a back hook: play ELT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ELT inside
Showing 24 of 225 words that contain ELT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ELT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ELT
Common questions about ELT
- Is ELT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ELT is not in it.
- How many points is ELT worth?
- ELT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELT mean?
- A young sow, not yet bred, that pig keepers are raising toward breeding age.
- What letters can be added to ELT?
- ELT takes 12 hooks: 11 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ELT:
Open ELT in the Word Finder