ROMAN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ROMAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROMAN?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROMAN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROMAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROMAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about ROMAN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 ROMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
printing
Upright type, as against italic.
Nearly every printed page is roman, which is exactly why nobody notices it: the name marks what a letter is not doing rather than what it is. Compositors set the word with a small letter to keep it apart from the city, and that convention has come through into digital typesetting unchanged.
How ROMAN is used
Uncountable and attributive — set in roman, roman type. Written with a small letter in this sense.
- Titles go in italic and everything else in roman.
- The correction returns the phrase to roman.
- A page of roman with one italic word draws the eye to it.
- He set the whole quotation in roman by mistake.
- Roman and italic of the same face are drawn separately.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROMAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ROMAN
The 5 tiles of ROMAN in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ROMAN
Showing 24 of 49 words that begin with ROMAN.
Words ending in ROMAN
1 words end in ROMAN. Useful as a back hook: play ROMAN onto a word already on the board.
Words with ROMAN inside
Showing 24 of 113 words that contain ROMAN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ROMAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ROMAN
Common questions about ROMAN
- Is ROMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROMAN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROMAN worth?
- ROMAN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROMAN mean?
- Upright type, as against italic.
- What letters can be added to ROMAN?
- ROMAN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROMAN:
Open ROMAN in the Word Finder