SAULT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SAULT 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 SAULT?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAULT is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAULT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
saultsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAULT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAULT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SAULT
- 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 SAULT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A waterfall or a stretch of rapids in a river, a term surviving today mainly in place names such as Sault Ste. Marie.
Sault came into English from French sauter, to leap, since a waterfall or rapid looks like the river leaping over a drop or obstruction. Early explorers and traders in North America used sault to describe the rushing water at river narrows, and the word survives now chiefly inside place names rather than in ordinary description. Sault Ste. Marie, on the border between Ontario and Michigan, takes its name directly from the rapids in the river there. Outside such names, sault reads as old-fashioned or regional rather than as everyday vocabulary.
How SAULT is used
Rare outside place names; encountered mostly in older travel writing about North American rivers.
- The traders portaged their canoes around the sault.
- Early maps marked the sault where the river narrowed and roared.
- The town grew up beside the sault that gave it its name.
- Ice built up along the edges of the sault each winter.
- His journal described the sault as the loudest place on the river.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAULT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAULT
The 5 tiles of SAULT in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SAULT
1 longer words begin with SAULT.
Words ending in SAULT
4 words end in SAULT. Useful as a back hook: play SAULT onto a word already on the board.
Words with SAULT inside
16 words contain SAULT in the middle. Words that start with SAULT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SAULT
Common questions about SAULT
- Is SAULT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAULT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAULT worth?
- SAULT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAULT mean?
- A waterfall or a stretch of rapids in a river, a term surviving today mainly in place names such as Sault Ste. Marie.
- What letters can be added to SAULT?
- SAULT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAULT:
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