LOUIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. LOUIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LOUIS?
| 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: 23 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LOUIS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOUIS
No single letter turns LOUIS into another word.
How LOUIS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOUIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about LOUIS
- LOUIS runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does LOUIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A French gold coin of the period before the revolution.
The coin carried the king's head and the king's name, and it went out with him: what replaced it held the same weight of gold under a different word entirely. A louis turns up in novels as a way of saying a sum was large without giving a figure that anybody now would understand.
How LOUIS is used
Countable, and the plural is also louis. Historical.
- He paid twenty louis for a horse worth half that.
- A louis in a pocket was a serious sum.
- The novel counts in louis and the reader takes it on trust.
- Two louis bought silence for a week.
- The louis went out of use with the monarchy that issued it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOUIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in LOUIS
Common questions about LOUIS
- Is LOUIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOUIS, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOUIS worth?
- LOUIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOUIS mean?
- A French gold coin of the period before the revolution.
- What letters can be added to LOUIS?
- No single letter can be added to LOUIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOUIS:
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