SELLE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SELLE 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 SELLE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SELLE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SELLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SELLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SELLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,530.
What does SELLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An old word for a saddle, especially a riding saddle, occasionally also used for a raised seat resembling one.
Selle entered English from Old French and once stood as a plain synonym for saddle in everyday medieval usage, before saddle itself became the standard word. Writers of historical fiction and translators of medieval texts still reach for selle when they want an older, more formal flavour than the modern word gives. The term appears almost exclusively in period settings such as tournaments, knighthood and horsemanship. A rider is described as sitting in the selle rather than in the saddle when a text is deliberately archaic.
How SELLE is used
Archaic and literary; met in historical fiction, poetry and translations of medieval works rather than modern speech.
- The knight settled himself firmly in the selle before the joust.
- An old romance describes a lady riding pillion behind the selle.
- The translator kept the word selle to preserve the medieval tone.
- He gripped the reins and rose slightly in the selle.
- The poem pictures the rider swaying gently in the selle.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SELLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SELLE
3 longer words begin with SELLE.
Words ending in SELLE
7 words end in SELLE. Useful as a back hook: play SELLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with SELLE inside
Showing 24 of 50 words that contain SELLE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SELLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SELLE
Common questions about SELLE
- Is SELLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SELLE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SELLE worth?
- SELLE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SELLE mean?
- An old word for a saddle, especially a riding saddle, occasionally also used for a raised seat resembling one.
- What letters can be added to SELLE?
- SELLE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SELLE:
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