SKELF is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. SKELF 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 12 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept SKELF?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SKELF is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SKELF
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
skelfsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SKELF scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SKELF, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does SKELF mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A splinter of wood, especially one lodged painfully in the skin, in Scots usage.
A skelf is the small sharp sliver that comes off rough timber and works its way under a fingernail or into a palm, exactly where an English speaker further south would just say splinter. By extension Scots speakers also call an annoying, prickly person a skelf, someone who gets under your skin the way a piece of wood does. The word is common in everyday Scottish talk and rare outside it.
How SKELF is used
Scots dialect; used in everyday Scottish speech where splinter would serve elsewhere.
- A skelf from the old fence dug into his thumb.
- She pulled the skelf out with a pair of tweezers.
- Mind the bench, it still throws off the odd skelf.
- The bare wooden floor left a skelf in the child's foot.
- His workmates called him a right skelf for the way he needled everyone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SKELF and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SKELF
1 longer words begin with SKELF.
Shorter words from the letters in SKELF
Common questions about SKELF
- Is SKELF valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SKELF, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SKELF worth?
- SKELF is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SKELF mean?
- A splinter of wood, especially one lodged painfully in the skin, in Scots usage.
- What letters can be added to SKELF?
- SKELF takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SKELF:
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