LANT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. LANT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LANT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LANT is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LANT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in LANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What does LANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectarchaic
Stale urine, once collected and used in the scouring and treatment of wool.
Before modern detergents, lant, meaning aged urine, was gathered and used by wool workers because its ammonia content helped clean and soften raw fleece. The word survives now mainly in dialect and historical accounts of old trades.
How LANT is used
Archaic and dialectal; encountered chiefly in descriptions of traditional wool processing.
- Workers once soaked raw fleece in lant before washing it.
- The old mill kept barrels of lant for scouring wool.
- Villagers collected lant from households for the local weaver.
- The smell of lant lingered around the wool sheds.
- Historians describe how lant was gradually replaced by soap.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LANT
23 longer words begin with LANT.
Words ending in LANT
Showing 24 of 105 words that end in LANT. Useful as a back hook: play LANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with LANT inside
Showing 24 of 264 words that contain LANT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LANT
Common questions about LANT
- Is LANT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LANT is not in it.
- How many points is LANT worth?
- LANT is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LANT mean?
- Stale urine, once collected and used in the scouring and treatment of wool.
- What letters can be added to LANT?
- LANT takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of LANT:
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