SAROS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SAROS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAROS?
| 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: 24 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAROS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAROS
No single letter turns SAROS into another word.
How SAROS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAROS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about SAROS
- SAROS begins and ends with the same letter.
- The same 5 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 SAROS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
An astronomical cycle of about eighteen years and eleven days after which the Sun, Moon and Earth return to nearly the same relative positions, so that a similar sequence of solar and lunar eclipses repeats.
Ancient Babylonian astronomers noticed the saros cycle long before anyone understood why eclipses happened, and used it to predict roughly when the next eclipse in a series would occur. Because the cycle is not an exact whole number of days, each eclipse in a saros series is visible from a slightly different part of the globe than the one before it. Modern astronomers still use the saros to group eclipses into families and to forecast eclipses centuries into the future. The term comes from a Greek transliteration of a Babylonian word for repetition.
How SAROS is used
A specialist term found in astronomy texts and eclipse calendars rather than in casual speech.
- The eclipse belonged to saros series 145, one astronomers track closely.
- Every saros repeats a similar eclipse roughly eighteen years later.
- She explained how the saros lets astronomers predict future eclipses.
- The museum display traced one saros across three centuries of eclipses.
- Ancient tablets recorded eclipses without knowing the cause of the saros.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAROS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAROS
The 5 tiles of SAROS in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with SAROS
1 longer words begin with SAROS.
Shorter words from the letters in SAROS
Common questions about SAROS
- Is SAROS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAROS, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAROS worth?
- SAROS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAROS mean?
- An astronomical cycle of about eighteen years and eleven days after which the Sun, Moon and Earth return to nearly the same relative positions, so that a similar sequence of solar and lunar eclipses repeats.
- What letters can be added to SAROS?
- No single letter can be added to SAROS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAROS:
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