SALON is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SALON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SALON?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SALON is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SALON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
salonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SALON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SALON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What stands out about SALON
- 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 SALON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A shop offering beauty treatments such as hairdressing, manicures or skincare; also, historically, a large reception room, or a regular gathering of writers, artists and thinkers for conversation.
The everyday meaning of salon as a hair or beauty business grew out of an older French sense, a fashionable drawing room where a hostess gathered notable guests for wide-ranging conversation about art, politics and ideas. Those eighteenth and nineteenth century literary salons helped spread new ideas long before mass media existed, and historians still study them as centers of intellectual life. Today most English speakers meet the word through hair salon, nail salon or tanning salon rather than through its older, more intellectual sense.
How SALON is used
Most commonly heard today as part of phrases like hair salon or nail salon, though the older sense survives in historical and literary writing.
- She booked an appointment at the hair salon downtown.
- Enlightenment thinkers gathered in a Parisian salon to debate philosophy.
- The nail salon stayed open late on weekends.
- His portrait hung in the grand salon of the old mansion.
- A famous literary salon once met weekly in her apartment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SALON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SALON
The 5 tiles of SALON in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SALON
1 longer words begin with SALON.
Words with SALON inside
2 words contain SALON in the middle. Words that start with SALON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SALON
Common questions about SALON
- Is SALON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SALON, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SALON worth?
- SALON is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SALON mean?
- A shop offering beauty treatments such as hairdressing, manicures or skincare; also, historically, a large reception room, or a regular gathering of writers, artists and thinkers for conversation.
- What letters can be added to SALON?
- SALON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SALON:
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