HOLLO is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. HOLLO 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 HOLLO?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOLLO is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOLLO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOLLO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOLLO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 224,070.
What does HOLLO mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaicdialect
A loud shout used to attract someone's attention from a distance or to urge on hunting dogs during a chase.
Hunters traditionally called hollo to encourage hounds once they had picked up a scent, a sharp, carrying cry meant to be heard over barking and hoofbeats across open country. Beyond the hunting field, people used the same shout more generally to hail someone too far away for ordinary speech, much as sailors or travellers might call out across a distance before other signals were available. The word belongs to the same old family as halloo and holla, and many nineteenth-century writers used hollo and hello almost interchangeably, before hello settled into its modern role as a standard greeting. Today hollo survives mainly in historical fiction, dialect speech, and accounts of traditional fox hunting.
How HOLLO is used
Archaic or dialectal, encountered mainly in older writing, hunting accounts, and historical fiction rather than everyday modern speech.
- The huntsman gave a hollo as the hounds picked up the scent.
- A distant hollo carried across the valley toward the farmhouse.
- He answered her hollo with a wave of his hat.
- The old novel has a gamekeeper hollo to his dogs at dawn.
- Villagers still use a hollo to call each other across the fields.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOLLO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOLLO
Showing 24 of 25 words that begin with HOLLO.
Words with HOLLO inside
1 words contain HOLLO in the middle. Words that start with HOLLO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOLLO
Common questions about HOLLO
- Is HOLLO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOLLO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOLLO worth?
- HOLLO is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOLLO mean?
- A loud shout used to attract someone's attention from a distance or to urge on hunting dogs during a chase.
- What letters can be added to HOLLO?
- HOLLO takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOLLO:
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