PALLET is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PALLET 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 PALLET?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PALLET is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PALLET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
palletsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PALLET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PALLET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does PALLET mean in Scrabble?
noun
A flat, portable platform, usually made of wood, on which goods are stacked and moved by forklift or hand truck.
Warehouses and shipping companies load boxes onto a pallet so that a forklift can lift and move an entire stack at once instead of handling each box separately. The same word once meant a simple straw-filled bed, and old texts sometimes use pallet in that older sense for a poor or makeshift place to sleep. Modern use has shifted almost entirely to the storage and shipping meaning.
How PALLET is used
Common in warehousing, retail and logistics; the older simple-bed sense now sounds literary or archaic.
- The forklift driver lifted a full pallet of canned goods onto the truck.
- Workers shrink-wrapped each pallet before it left the warehouse.
- A broken pallet spilled bottles across the loading dock.
- The old soldier slept on a straw pallet in the corner of the barn.
- They stacked three pallets high to fit more stock into the truck.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PALLET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PALLET
21 longer words begin with PALLET.
Shorter words from the letters in PALLET
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Common questions about PALLET
- Is PALLET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PALLET, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PALLET worth?
- PALLET is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PALLET mean?
- A flat, portable platform, usually made of wood, on which goods are stacked and moved by forklift or hand truck.
- What letters can be added to PALLET?
- PALLET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PALLET:
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