FALLOW is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FALLOW 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 FALLOW?
| 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 FALLOW is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FALLOW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fallowsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FALLOW scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FALLOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 689,845.
What does FALLOW mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Of farmland, ploughed but left unsown for a season so the soil can recover.
Fallow land is not abandoned but deliberately rested, a practice farmers have used for thousands of years to let the soil regain its strength. The word spreads into figurative use for any period of inactivity during which something recovers, as in a fallow year for a writer. Fallow is also the name of a pale brown-yellow colour, as in the fallow deer.
How FALLOW is used
Literal in farming; figurative for a quiet, unproductive stretch.
- The field lay fallow for the whole of last year.
- She called it a fallow period, not a failure.
- Farmers leave one third of the land fallow in turn.
- A fallow plot was soon covered in wild flowers.
- The studio went fallow during the long winter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FALLOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FALLOW
7 longer words begin with FALLOW.
Shorter words from the letters in FALLOW
Common questions about FALLOW
- Is FALLOW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FALLOW, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FALLOW worth?
- FALLOW is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FALLOW mean?
- Of farmland, ploughed but left unsown for a season so the soil can recover.
- What letters can be added to FALLOW?
- FALLOW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FALLOW:
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