PELA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. PELA 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PELA?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PELA is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PELA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PELA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PELA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about PELA
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PELA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalzoology
A white wax produced by a scale insect native to China, once traded and used much like beeswax.
Farmers once raised the scale insects that yield pela on ash trees, scraping the wax from the branches once it had built up. Pela was valued abroad for candles and polish before mineral and synthetic waxes replaced it.
How PELA is used
Historical term for a once-traded insect wax, met mainly in older accounts of Chinese trade.
- Traders once shipped pela from southern China.
- The insects that produce pela feed on ash bark.
- Old manuals describe polishing furniture with pela.
- Pela was gathered by scraping wax from the branches.
- Few outside China had heard of pela by that time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PELA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PELA
The 4 tiles of PELA in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with PELA
14 longer words begin with PELA.
Words with PELA inside
23 words contain PELA in the middle. Words that start with PELA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PELA
Common questions about PELA
- Is PELA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PELA is not in it.
- How many points is PELA worth?
- PELA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PELA mean?
- A white wax produced by a scale insect native to China, once traded and used much like beeswax.
- What letters can be added to PELA?
- PELA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PELA:
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