NORTHLAND is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. NORTHLAND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NORTHLAND?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NORTHLAND is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NORTHLAND
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
northlandsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NORTHLAND scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in NORTHLAND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NORTHLAND has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NORTHLAND mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A region lying in the northern part of a country or continent.
The word northland has a slightly poetic, wide-horizon feel and is often used where a plain map term would sound flat. It tends to point at a whole stretch of country rather than a single town or border.
How NORTHLAND is used
Northland appears in travel writing, fiction and place names to suggest a distant, cold region.
- The explorers left the warm coast and headed deep into the northland.
- Every winter the northland disappears under a thick blanket of snow.
- She grew up in the northland and never lost her love of pine forests.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NORTHLAND and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NORTHLAND
1 longer words begin with NORTHLAND.
Shorter words from the letters in NORTHLAND
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Common questions about NORTHLAND
- Is NORTHLAND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NORTHLAND, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NORTHLAND worth?
- NORTHLAND is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NORTHLAND mean?
- A region lying in the northern part of a country or continent.
- What letters can be added to NORTHLAND?
- NORTHLAND takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of NORTHLAND:
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