SMELT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SMELT 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 SMELT?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SMELT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SMELT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
smeltsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SMELT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SMELT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does SMELT mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To extract metal from its ore by heating it, usually with a reducing agent, until the metal separates and melts free.
To smelt ore is to heat it strongly, often in a furnace with charcoal or coke acting as a reducing agent, so that the metal locked inside the rock separates out and can be collected in molten form. Humans have smelted metals for thousands of years, and the shift from stone tools to bronze and then iron tracks almost exactly the spread of smelting knowledge across ancient societies. Confusingly, the same spelling names an entirely unrelated small silvery fish, found in cold coastal waters and rivers, that is prized for its delicate flavour and is often fried whole. In older British usage, smelt also served as the past tense of the verb smell, though smelled has now largely replaced it in that role, leaving smelt to belong mainly to metalworking and to the fish.
How SMELT is used
A technical term in metallurgy and mining for extracting metal from ore, and separately the everyday name of a small edible fish.
- Workers used to smelt iron ore in furnaces fed by charcoal.
- The factory still smelts copper ore brought in from nearby mines.
- They fried the smelt whole and served them with lemon.
- Ancient societies learned to smelt tin and copper together to make bronze.
- Fishermen sold baskets of fresh smelt at the harbour market.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SMELT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SMELT
The 5 tiles of SMELT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SMELT
8 longer words begin with SMELT.
Words ending in SMELT
3 words end in SMELT. Useful as a back hook: play SMELT onto a word already on the board.
Words with SMELT inside
4 words contain SMELT in the middle. Words that start with SMELT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SMELT
Common questions about SMELT
- Is SMELT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SMELT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SMELT worth?
- SMELT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SMELT mean?
- To extract metal from its ore by heating it, usually with a reducing agent, until the metal separates and melts free.
- What letters can be added to SMELT?
- SMELT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SMELT:
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