PILAF is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PILAF is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PILAF?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PILAF is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PILAF
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PILAF scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PILAF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does PILAF mean in Scrabble?
noun
A dish of rice cooked in seasoned broth, often with meat, vegetables or spices added.
Pilaf is a rice dish found across the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, made by simmering rice in stock flavoured with onions, spices and sometimes meat or dried fruit, rather than boiling it in plain water. The technique lets the grains absorb the flavour of the liquid as they cook, producing separate, richly flavoured rice rather than a sticky mass. Many regional versions exist under related names, including pilau and pilaw, reflecting how widely the dish travelled along old trade routes. In English-speaking kitchens, pilaf now covers almost any rice dish prepared this way, even far from its original regions.
How PILAF is used
Common in cookery writing and menus; several spelling variants exist for the same dish.
- She served the lamb over a bed of spiced pilaf.
- The recipe called for toasting the rice before making the pilaf.
- A simple vegetable pilaf accompanied the main course.
- He learned to cook pilaf from his grandmother's handwritten notes.
- The restaurant's pilaf was flavoured with saffron and dried apricots.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PILAF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PILAF
3 longer words begin with PILAF.
Shorter words from the letters in PILAF
Common questions about PILAF
- Is PILAF valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PILAF, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PILAF worth?
- PILAF is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PILAF mean?
- A dish of rice cooked in seasoned broth, often with meat, vegetables or spices added.
- What letters can be added to PILAF?
- PILAF takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PILAF:
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