SABOT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SABOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SABOT?
| 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 SABOT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SABOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sabotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SABOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SABOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SABOT
- The same 5 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 SABOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A simple wooden shoe, hollowed out from a single block of wood, traditionally worn by French and Breton peasants.
A sabot was carved as one solid piece rather than assembled from separate parts, which made it cheap, sturdy and easy to repair for farm workers who needed footwear that could survive mud, wet fields and hard labour. The word is French for the shoe itself, and some historians link it, though not with full certainty, to the word sabotage, from the idea of workers clattering or damaging machinery in wooden shoes during disputes with employers. Away from footwear, a sabot also names a supporting sleeve that holds a bullet or shell steady inside a gun barrel before falling away once it leaves the muzzle. Card dealers in casino games such as baccarat use a third, unrelated kind of sabot, a box that holds several shuffled decks and releases one card at a time.
How SABOT is used
The wooden shoe is chiefly a historical and folk-costume term; the gun and card-dealing senses are separate technical uses of the same word.
- The peasant walked the muddy field in a pair of wooden sabots.
- A museum display showed how a sabot was carved from a single block of wood.
- The rifle round used a plastic sabot to centre it in the barrel.
- The dealer drew each card from the sabot at the baccarat table.
- Old photographs showed villagers dancing in their sabots at the harvest festival.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SABOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SABOT
The 5 tiles of SABOT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with SABOT
10 longer words begin with SABOT.
Shorter words from the letters in SABOT
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Common questions about SABOT
- Is SABOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SABOT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SABOT worth?
- SABOT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SABOT mean?
- A simple wooden shoe, hollowed out from a single block of wood, traditionally worn by French and Breton peasants.
- What letters can be added to SABOT?
- SABOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SABOT:
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