SALPA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SALPA 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 SALPA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SALPA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SALPA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SALPA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SALPA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about SALPA
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 SALPA mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A genus of small, transparent, free-swimming marine animals with a barrel-shaped body open at both ends, found in warm ocean waters.
A salpa moves by pumping water through its transparent body, drawing water in at one opening and pushing it out the other, which both propels the animal forward and filters tiny food particles from the sea as it travels. Individual animals in salpa often link together end to end into long, drifting chains that can stretch for several metres, a striking sight for divers who come across one in open water. Although salpa looks something like a jellyfish, it is actually a tunicate, a group more closely related to animals with a backbone than to true jellyfish. Marine biologists study salpa partly because it reproduces very quickly under the right conditions, sometimes forming vast blooms across warm ocean surface waters.
How SALPA is used
A specialist marine-biology term, used chiefly in scientific and field-guide writing about tunicates and plankton.
- Divers photographed a long chain of salpa drifting near the surface.
- Marine biologists study salpa because it can reproduce extremely quickly in warm water.
- The transparent body of a salpa makes it almost invisible against open ocean water.
- A sudden bloom of salpa clouded the nets brought up from the research vessel.
- Unlike a jellyfish, salpa pumps water through its body rather than stinging its prey.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SALPA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SALPA
The 5 tiles of SALPA in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SALPA
2 longer words begin with SALPA.
Shorter words from the letters in SALPA
Common questions about SALPA
- Is SALPA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SALPA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SALPA worth?
- SALPA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SALPA mean?
- A genus of small, transparent, free-swimming marine animals with a barrel-shaped body open at both ends, found in warm ocean waters.
- What letters can be added to SALPA?
- SALPA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SALPA:
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