SAL is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. SAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAL?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAL is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What stands out about SAL
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 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 SAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
Salt, in the Latin names of old chemical preparations.
Sal survives on old bottles and in a handful of compounds that outlived the pharmacy which used them: sal volatile for smelling salts, sal ammoniac for the mineral. It is one of a set of Latin words that stayed in medicine long after prescriptions stopped being written in Latin at all.
How SAL is used
Used only in compounds — sal volatile, sal ammoniac. Not used alone in English.
- The label reads sal volatile in a hand nobody can date.
- A bottle of sal ammoniac sat on the shelf for forty years.
- Sal in a chemist's ledger means what salt means now.
- The recipe calls for sal and gives no quantity.
- Nobody writes sal outside a compound any more.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAL
The 3 tiles of SAL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SAL
Showing 24 of 482 words that begin with SAL.
Words ending in SAL
Showing 24 of 142 words that end in SAL. Useful as a back hook: play SAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with SAL inside
Showing 24 of 413 words that contain SAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SAL
Common questions about SAL
- Is SAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAL, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAL worth?
- SAL is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAL mean?
- Salt, in the Latin names of old chemical preparations.
- What letters can be added to SAL?
- SAL takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SAL:
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