SELE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. SELE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SELE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SELE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SELE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
selesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SELE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in SELE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,713.
What stands out about SELE
- The same 4 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 SELE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicpoetic
An old word for happiness or good fortune.
Sele descends from Old English selh and belongs to the same family as modern silly, which once meant blessed or fortunate before its meaning drifted toward foolish. Ballad-writers used sele as a form of blessing, wishing someone well for the day or the journey ahead. The term never survived into ordinary conversation and now lives on chiefly in anthologies of archaic and dialect vocabulary.
How SELE is used
Archaic; found in old verse and greetings, not in everyday modern English.
- The old greeting wished the traveller sele for the day ahead.
- Poets once used sele where a modern writer would simply say happiness.
- He spoke of sele as though good fortune itself could be handed over like a gift.
- In the ballad, sele falls upon the knight who keeps his word.
- Modern readers meet sele almost only in glossaries to older verse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SELE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SELE
The 4 tiles of SELE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SELE
Showing 24 of 66 words that begin with SELE.
Words with SELE inside
Showing 24 of 134 words that contain SELE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SELE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SELE
Common questions about SELE
- Is SELE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SELE is not in it.
- How many points is SELE worth?
- SELE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SELE mean?
- An old word for happiness or good fortune.
- What letters can be added to SELE?
- SELE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of SELE:
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