FELLAHIN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. FELLAHIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FELLAHIN?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FELLAHIN is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FELLAHIN
No single letter turns FELLAHIN into another word.
How FELLAHIN scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FELLAHIN, 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 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FELLAHIN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FELLAHIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
Peasant farmers and agricultural workers in Arab countries, especially in Egypt.
Fellahin is the Arabic plural of fellah. Travel writers and historians use it for the villagers who worked the land along the Nile, often as tenants of larger estates.
How FELLAHIN is used
Used in history and travel writing about the Middle East; fellah is the singular.
- The fellahin planted cotton along the river.
- Taxes weighed heavily on the fellahin of the delta.
- Early photographs show fellahin working with simple wooden ploughs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FELLAHIN and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FELLAHIN
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Common questions about FELLAHIN
- Is FELLAHIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FELLAHIN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FELLAHIN worth?
- FELLAHIN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FELLAHIN mean?
- Peasant farmers and agricultural workers in Arab countries, especially in Egypt.
- What letters can be added to FELLAHIN?
- No single letter can be added to FELLAHIN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FELLAHIN:
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