OMLAH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. OMLAH 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept OMLAH?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OMLAH is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OMLAH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
omlahsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OMLAH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OMLAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does OMLAH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian Englishhistorical
The body of clerks and minor officials attached to a court or government office in India.
Omlah described the whole working staff below the senior officers, including clerks, translators and record-keepers, in British Indian administration and in the courts that followed it. The word came from Persian and Urdu administrative vocabulary used under Mughal and then British rule. It survives now mostly in older legal and historical writing rather than in everyday use.
How OMLAH is used
Historical; found in accounts of colonial-era Indian administration and in older Indian legal writing.
- The omlah of the district court numbered over thirty clerks.
- Pay for the omlah was fixed lower than for the senior officers.
- The report lists every member of the omlah by post.
- Corruption among the omlah was a common complaint in the records.
- Historians describe the omlah as the backbone of the old courts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OMLAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OMLAH
1 longer words begin with OMLAH.
Shorter words from the letters in OMLAH
Common questions about OMLAH
- Is OMLAH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and OMLAH is not in it.
- How many points is OMLAH worth?
- OMLAH is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OMLAH mean?
- The body of clerks and minor officials attached to a court or government office in India.
- What letters can be added to OMLAH?
- OMLAH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OMLAH:
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