HOLLA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HOLLA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOLLA?
| 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 HOLLA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOLLA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOLLA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOLLA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does HOLLA mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaicinformal
An exclamation used to call out to someone or attract their attention from a distance, and in modern informal use, a shout or greeting meant to get in touch with someone.
Holla belongs to an old family of attention-getting shouts related to hollo and halloo, words once used to hail a passing traveller or call across open ground before telephones made distance easy to bridge. Older English writing, including Shakespeare, uses holla exactly this way, as a sudden cry meant to make someone stop and take notice. In recent decades the word gained new life in informal American speech and music, where holla at someone means to reach out, contact, or flirt with them, often shortened further to just holla as a friendly greeting. The two uses share the same core idea of calling loudly across a gap, whether that gap is physical distance or simply a lack of contact between people.
How HOLLA is used
Archaic as a plain attention-getting shout in older writing, but still current as informal slang meaning to greet or get in touch with someone.
- The guard gave a holla to challenge the stranger at the gate.
- She let out a holla when she spotted her friend across the square.
- He told her to holla at him once she landed.
- A loud holla echoed through the old courtyard.
- They exchanged numbers so she could holla anytime.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOLLA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HOLLA
The 5 tiles of HOLLA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HOLLA
7 longer words begin with HOLLA.
Words ending in HOLLA
1 words end in HOLLA. Useful as a back hook: play HOLLA onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOLLA inside
1 words contain HOLLA in the middle. Words that start with HOLLA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOLLA
Common questions about HOLLA
- Is HOLLA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOLLA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOLLA worth?
- HOLLA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOLLA mean?
- An exclamation used to call out to someone or attract their attention from a distance, and in modern informal use, a shout or greeting meant to get in touch with someone.
- What letters can be added to HOLLA?
- HOLLA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOLLA:
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