HOOVER is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HOOVER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOOVER?
| 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 HOOVER is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOOVER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hooversChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOOVER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HOOVER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 147,824.
What does HOOVER mean in Scrabble?
verb
Britishtrademark
To clean a floor or a carpet with a vacuum cleaner.
Hoover is the standard example of a trade name that turned into a verb, and in Britain it did so completely: people hoover with machines made by anybody at all. The company spent decades resisting the usage, which is the usual outcome — the more a name is used this way, the harder it becomes to defend.
How HOOVER is used
Transitive and intransitive: hoover the stairs, hoover up. Written with a small letter as a verb.
- He hoovered the stairs and called it a morning's work.
- She hoovers on Saturdays whether it needs it or not.
- The dog disappears the moment anybody hoovers.
- They hoovered up the last of the crisps in two minutes.
- Nobody in Britain says vacuum when they can say hoover.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOOVER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOOVER
4 longer words begin with HOOVER.
Shorter words from the letters in HOOVER
Common questions about HOOVER
- Is HOOVER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOOVER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOOVER worth?
- HOOVER is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOOVER mean?
- To clean a floor or a carpet with a vacuum cleaner.
- What letters can be added to HOOVER?
- HOOVER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HOOVER:
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