SAPOR is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SAPOR 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 SAPOR?
| 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 SAPOR 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 SAPOR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
saporsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAPOR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAPOR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SAPOR
- 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 SAPOR mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
The taste or flavour of a substance, especially as perceived by the tongue.
Sapor comes directly from the Latin word for taste, and older English writers used it much as a modern writer would use flavour or savour, often in scientific or medical descriptions of a substance's properties. A physician of an earlier century might record the sapor of a drug or a mineral water alongside its smell and appearance, treating taste as one more clue to a substance's nature. The word survives today mainly in specialised or deliberately old-fashioned writing, having largely been replaced in everyday English by flavour and taste. Its close relative sapid, meaning pleasantly flavoured, and its opposite insipid, meaning lacking flavour, both share the same Latin root.
How SAPOR is used
Archaic and literary; met mainly in older scientific writing rather than in current speech.
- The old treatise described the sapor of the mineral spring in careful detail.
- He noted the sweet sapor of the fruit before recording its other properties.
- The physician tested the sapor of the tonic before prescribing it to patients.
- Ancient writers judged a plant partly by its sapor as well as its smell.
- The bitter sapor of the bark made it unpleasant to chew.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAPOR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAPOR
The 5 tiles of SAPOR in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SAPOR
3 longer words begin with SAPOR.
Shorter words from the letters in SAPOR
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Common questions about SAPOR
- Is SAPOR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAPOR, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAPOR worth?
- SAPOR is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAPOR mean?
- The taste or flavour of a substance, especially as perceived by the tongue.
- What letters can be added to SAPOR?
- SAPOR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAPOR:
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