SILVA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SILVA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SILVA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SILVA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SILVA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SILVA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SILVA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about SILVA
- 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 SILVA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The trees of a particular forest or region considered together, or a written account describing them.
Silva is a formal, somewhat old-fashioned word borrowed from Latin, where it simply meant forest or woodland. Botanists once used silva for detailed books cataloguing every tree species native to a country, in the way a flora catalogues its plants. The same word survives today mainly in the spelling sylva, though silva remains an accepted alternative form in dictionaries and word lists. Outside specialist botanical writing, silva is rarely used in everyday speech.
How SILVA is used
Formal, mainly botanical noun; less common than the variant spelling sylva.
- The book catalogued the silva of the entire river valley.
- Botanists surveyed the silva growing along the ridge.
- A rich silva of oak and pine covered the hillside.
- The old survey listed every species in the region's silva.
- Naturalists compared the silva of two neighbouring counties.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SILVA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SILVA
The 5 tiles of SILVA in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SILVA
5 longer words begin with SILVA.
Shorter words from the letters in SILVA
Common questions about SILVA
- Is SILVA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SILVA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SILVA worth?
- SILVA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SILVA mean?
- The trees of a particular forest or region considered together, or a written account describing them.
- What letters can be added to SILVA?
- SILVA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SILVA:
Open SILVA in the Word Finder