SAMIEL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SAMIEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAMIEL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAMIEL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAMIEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
samielsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAMIEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SAMIEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about SAMIEL
- The same 6 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 SAMIEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A hot, dry, suffocating wind that blows across the desert carrying sand.
Samiel is another name for the simoom, the scorching desert wind of Arabia and North Africa that was long believed to kill travellers outright. The word comes from Turkish and Arabic words for poison and wind, which tells how it was feared. In European literature it turns up in travel books and poems, and in the opera Der Freischutz Samiel is the name of the dark spirit who bargains for souls. Today the word is rare outside literary writing.
How SAMIEL is used
Literary and rare; simoom is the more usual word.
- The caravan lay flat on the ground until the samiel had passed.
- A samiel rose from the south and darkened the sky.
- The poet compared his grief to a samiel withering the fields.
- Travellers in the old accounts speak of the samiel with dread.
- No water remained after the samiel blew through the oasis.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAMIEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAMIEL
The 6 tiles of SAMIEL in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with SAMIEL
1 longer words begin with SAMIEL.
Shorter words from the letters in SAMIEL
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Common questions about SAMIEL
- Is SAMIEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAMIEL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAMIEL worth?
- SAMIEL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAMIEL mean?
- A hot, dry, suffocating wind that blows across the desert carrying sand.
- What letters can be added to SAMIEL?
- SAMIEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SAMIEL:
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