POLDER is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. POLDER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLDER?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLDER is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLDER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
poldersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POLDER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in POLDER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 64,673.
What does POLDER mean in Scrabble?
noun
A piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.
Polders are made by building an embankment around shallow water or marsh and then pumping the area dry, leaving fertile farmland below sea level. A large part of the Netherlands exists this way, and windmills were once used to drain the fields. The word is Dutch and is used in English for such land anywhere. As a verb it means to turn water into such land.
How POLDER is used
Used in geography and history, strongly associated with the Dutch landscape.
- The farm lies on a polder two metres below sea level.
- Pumps keep the polder dry through every wet winter.
- Cows graze across the flat green polder.
- The dike around the polder was raised after the storm.
- Workers built a new polder from the old tidal marsh.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLDER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POLDER
The 6 tiles of POLDER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with POLDER
3 longer words begin with POLDER.
Shorter words from the letters in POLDER
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Common questions about POLDER
- Is POLDER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLDER, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLDER worth?
- POLDER is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLDER mean?
- A piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.
- What letters can be added to POLDER?
- POLDER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of POLDER:
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