SMALT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SMALT 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 SMALT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SMALT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SMALT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SMALT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SMALT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does SMALT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A deep blue pigment made by grinding coloured glass, produced by fusing cobalt oxide with potash and silica.
Glassmakers created smalt by melting silica and potash together with a small amount of cobalt oxide, which coloured the whole batch of glass a strong blue, and then grinding the cooled glass into a fine powder for use as paint. European painters relied on smalt for skies and drapery for centuries before more stable synthetic blues appeared, though it fades and turns grey over time as the glass slowly loses its colour, a change conservators now look for when dating older paintings. The same powdered glass also coloured ceramic glazes and decorative plaster, valued for a similar rich blue wherever a durable mineral pigment was needed. Modern chemistry has largely replaced smalt with pigments such as cobalt blue and ultramarine, which hold their colour far better, so today the word appears mainly in art history and conservation.
How SMALT is used
A specialist term from art history and conservation, describing a pigment now mostly replaced by more stable modern blues.
- Conservators noticed the sky had faded where the painter had used smalt.
- The recipe called for grinding cobalt glass into fine smalt for the workshop.
- Smalt gave many seventeenth-century paintings their distinctive greyish-blue skies.
- Potters once mixed smalt into glazes to achieve a deep, even blue.
- The museum label explained how smalt discolours differently from ultramarine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SMALT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SMALT
The 5 tiles of SMALT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SMALT
8 longer words begin with SMALT.
Shorter words from the letters in SMALT
Common questions about SMALT
- Is SMALT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SMALT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SMALT worth?
- SMALT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SMALT mean?
- A deep blue pigment made by grinding coloured glass, produced by fusing cobalt oxide with potash and silica.
- What letters can be added to SMALT?
- SMALT takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SMALT:
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