SLANT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SLANT 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 SLANT?
| 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 SLANT is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SLANT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does SLANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sloping direction, surface or line that deviates from the horizontal or vertical; also a particular way of presenting, interpreting or reporting something that reflects a personal bias or point of view.
A slant in the physical sense describes anything tilted away from level, such as a roof, a handwriting style or a ramp built at an angle rather than flat. In writing and journalism, slant instead describes the angle a reporter or writer takes on a story, often implying that the facts have been shaped, however subtly, to favor one viewpoint over another. The word also works as a verb, as when an editor accuses a colleague of slanting a story toward one side of an argument.
How SLANT is used
Used literally for physical tilt and figuratively, often critically, for bias in reporting or presenting information.
- The roof had a steep slant to shed heavy snow.
- Critics accused the newspaper of giving the story a political slant.
- Her handwriting has a distinct rightward slant.
- The report offered a fresh slant on an old problem.
- Sunlight came through the window at a low slant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLANT
The 5 tiles of SLANT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SLANT
15 longer words begin with SLANT.
Words ending in SLANT
1 words end in SLANT. Useful as a back hook: play SLANT onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in SLANT
Common questions about SLANT
- Is SLANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLANT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLANT worth?
- SLANT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLANT mean?
- A sloping direction, surface or line that deviates from the horizontal or vertical; also a particular way of presenting, interpreting or reporting something that reflects a personal bias or point of view.
- What letters can be added to SLANT?
- SLANT takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLANT:
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