HALLOW is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HALLOW 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 HALLOW?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HALLOW is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HALLOW
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HALLOW scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HALLOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 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 HALLOW mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To make something holy, or to honour and treat it as sacred.
To hallow a place or an object is to set it apart for religious use, usually through a rite or a blessing. The verb is best known from the opening of the Lord's Prayer, where it asks that a name be treated as holy. It also works in a looser sense when people speak of ground made sacred by what happened there, and the related form hallowed is far more common than hallow itself.
How HALLOW is used
Formal and religious; the participle hallowed is the usual form in modern writing.
- The bishop came to hallow the new chapel before the first service.
- Pilgrims believe the spring will hallow anyone who drinks from it.
- We gather here to hallow the memory of those who fell.
- Nothing could hallow the field more than the quiet of the people who stood in it.
- The old prayer asks the faithful to hallow a name above all others.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HALLOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HALLOW
9 longer words begin with HALLOW.
Shorter words from the letters in HALLOW
Common questions about HALLOW
- Is HALLOW valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HALLOW, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HALLOW worth?
- HALLOW is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HALLOW mean?
- To make something holy, or to honour and treat it as sacred.
- What letters can be added to HALLOW?
- HALLOW takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HALLOW:
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