OBOLUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OBOLUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OBOLUS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OBOLUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OBOLUS
No single letter turns OBOLUS into another word.
How OBOLUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OBOLUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 332,604.
What does OBOLUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A small coin or unit of weight used in ancient Greece, roughly one sixth of a drachma.
An obolus was small change in ancient Athens, worth a fraction of the more familiar drachma, and Greek myth gave the coin a second, darker use: mourners placed an obolus in or on the mouth of the dead to pay Charon, the ferryman who carried souls across the river to the underworld. The same word later named a unit of weight equal to the coin, since ancient currencies were often valued by the weight of metal they contained. Historians and classicists still use obolus when discussing ancient Greek money and burial customs.
How OBOLUS is used
A historical term from ancient Greek currency and mythology, used mainly in classical scholarship and discussion of ancient burial customs.
- Archaeologists found a single obolus placed beside the skeleton.
- The myth says the dead must pay an obolus to cross into the underworld.
- A drachma was worth six times the value of a single obolus.
- The museum displayed a tray of ancient coins, among them a worn obolus.
- Ancient pharmacists sometimes measured medicine by the obolus, a small unit of weight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OBOLUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about OBOLUS
- Is OBOLUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OBOLUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OBOLUS worth?
- OBOLUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OBOLUS mean?
- A small coin or unit of weight used in ancient Greece, roughly one sixth of a drachma.
- What letters can be added to OBOLUS?
- No single letter can be added to OBOLUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OBOLUS:
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