SLOOP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SLOOP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLOOP?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLOOP is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLOOP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sloopsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SLOOP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLOOP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 84,026.
What stands out about SLOOP
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 SLOOP mean in Scrabble?
noun
nautical
A small sailing boat rigged with a single mast and set fore and aft, typically carrying a mainsail and one jib.
A sloop carries just one mast, unlike a two-masted ketch or yawl, and its sails run fore and aft rather than square across the deck, which lets it sail closer into the wind than older square-rigged ships could manage. Sailors distinguish a sloop from the similar cutter mainly by rigging detail: a sloop's bowsprit and standing rigging stay fixed in place, while a cutter's can be shifted to change how much sail it carries. The Royal Navy once built small warships called sloops of war, armed with only a handful of guns and used for patrol, escort and anti-submarine work rather than full-scale battle. Today the word mostly describes recreational and racing yachts, since the simple, efficient single-mast rig remains popular with amateur sailors long after larger square-riggers disappeared from ordinary use.
How SLOOP is used
A standard nautical term, common both in everyday talk about small sailing boats and in more technical descriptions of rigging and naval history.
- The little sloop tacked back and forth across the harbour in the afternoon breeze.
- He kept his single-masted sloop moored at the end of the jetty.
- During the war, a Royal Navy sloop escorted merchant convoys across the Atlantic.
- She learned to sail on an old wooden sloop her grandfather had restored.
- A cutter can be told apart from a sloop by its movable bowsprit and extra headsails.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLOOP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLOOP
The 5 tiles of SLOOP in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with SLOOP
1 longer words begin with SLOOP.
Shorter words from the letters in SLOOP
Common questions about SLOOP
- Is SLOOP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLOOP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLOOP worth?
- SLOOP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLOOP mean?
- A small sailing boat rigged with a single mast and set fore and aft, typically carrying a mainsail and one jib.
- What letters can be added to SLOOP?
- SLOOP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLOOP:
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