SIMOON is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SIMOON 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 SIMOON?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SIMOON is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIMOON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
simoonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SIMOON scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SIMOON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,549.
What does SIMOON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A hot, dry, suffocating wind full of dust and sand that blows across the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
A simoon arrives suddenly, darkens the sky with sand and can make breathing hard for people and animals caught in the open. Travellers' accounts of the Sahara and the Arabian desert describe it as more violent and brief than ordinary desert winds. The word comes from Arabic samum, meaning poisonous, and it is often spelled simoom.
How SIMOON is used
Literary and geographic; the spelling simoom is equally old.
- The caravan halted when the simoon rose over the dunes.
- A simoon buried the tents in sand overnight.
- The old explorer wrote vividly of the simoon he had survived.
- Heat from the simoon cracked the dry earth.
- They covered their faces against the simoon and waited.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIMOON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SIMOON
The 6 tiles of SIMOON in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SIMOON
1 longer words begin with SIMOON.
Shorter words from the letters in SIMOON
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Common questions about SIMOON
- Is SIMOON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIMOON, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIMOON worth?
- SIMOON is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIMOON mean?
- A hot, dry, suffocating wind full of dust and sand that blows across the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
- What letters can be added to SIMOON?
- SIMOON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SIMOON:
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