HELOT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HELOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HELOT?
| 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 HELOT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HELOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
helotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HELOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HELOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about HELOT
- The same 5 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 HELOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A serf in ancient Sparta bound to work land owned by Spartan citizens, occupying a status between slave and free citizen, and by extension, any person or group kept in a state of servitude or oppression.
In ancient Sparta a helot belonged to the state rather than to an individual master, farming an allotted plot so that Spartan citizens were freed to train full time as soldiers. Their status sat between slave and free citizen, since they could not be bought or sold individually but had almost no legal rights and lived under harsh restrictions enforced by the Spartan authorities. Writers later borrowed the word helot to describe any group treated as a permanent underclass, forced into labour or denied basic freedoms even outside a Greek context. The extended sense keeps the original idea of bound, unequal labour rather than referring to outright chattel slavery.
How HELOT is used
Chiefly historical when discussing ancient Sparta, and occasionally used figuratively for a group kept in servitude or treated as a permanent underclass.
- Spartan citizens relied on helot labour to farm their land.
- Historians debate how harshly the Spartans treated their helots.
- The essay described factory workers as modern helots.
- A helot revolt once threatened Spartan control of the region.
- Ancient historians describe daily fear as normal for a helot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HELOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HELOT
The 5 tiles of HELOT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with HELOT
7 longer words begin with HELOT.
Shorter words from the letters in HELOT
Common questions about HELOT
- Is HELOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HELOT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HELOT worth?
- HELOT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HELOT mean?
- A serf in ancient Sparta bound to work land owned by Spartan citizens, occupying a status between slave and free citizen, and by extension, any person or group kept in a state of servitude or oppression.
- What letters can be added to HELOT?
- HELOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HELOT:
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