FELLAH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FELLAH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FELLAH?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FELLAH is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FELLAH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fellahsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FELLAH scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FELLAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What does FELLAH mean in Scrabble?
noun
A peasant farmer or agricultural labourer in an Arab country, especially in Egypt.
The word comes from Arabic and is used for a person who works the land, as distinct from a townsman or a nomad. In Egypt the fellah has long been the backbone of farming along the Nile. The plural in English is fellahs or, following the Arabic, fellahin.
How FELLAH is used
Used mostly in writing about the Middle East, both historical and modern.
- The fellah rose before dawn to open the irrigation channel.
- A fellah from the delta village sold his cotton at the market.
- Travellers described the fellah as patient and hard-working.
- The novel follows a fellah who loses his small plot of land.
- Every fellah in the district knew the flood would come late that year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FELLAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FELLAH
3 longer words begin with FELLAH.
Shorter words from the letters in FELLAH
Common questions about FELLAH
- Is FELLAH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FELLAH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FELLAH worth?
- FELLAH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FELLAH mean?
- A peasant farmer or agricultural labourer in an Arab country, especially in Egypt.
- What letters can be added to FELLAH?
- FELLAH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FELLAH:
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