SOLAN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SOLAN 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 SOLAN?
| 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 SOLAN is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOLAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOLAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOLAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What stands out about SOLAN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 SOLAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoologyScots
A large white seabird with black wing tips, the gannet, especially as known around the coasts and islands of northern Britain.
Solan is an older name for the gannet, a big diving seabird that plunges from height into the sea to catch fish, and it survives chiefly in the fixed phrase solan goose. The name is strongly associated with Scotland, where colonies nest on remote cliffs and islands, and it was once used more widely before gannet became the standard term. Today solan appears mainly in older writing, place names and natural history rather than in everyday speech.
How SOLAN is used
A Scots and older literary name for the gannet, met today mostly in the phrase solan goose and in natural history writing.
- Fishermen once called the diving seabird a solan goose.
- The cliffs were crowded with nesting solan geese in early summer.
- Old accounts describe islanders harvesting solan eggs for food.
- A solan plunged headfirst into the waves after a shoal of fish.
- The naturalist preferred the traditional name solan to gannet.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOLAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOLAN
The 5 tiles of SOLAN in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SOLAN
14 longer words begin with SOLAN.
Shorter words from the letters in SOLAN
Common questions about SOLAN
- Is SOLAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOLAN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOLAN worth?
- SOLAN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOLAN mean?
- A large white seabird with black wing tips, the gannet, especially as known around the coasts and islands of northern Britain.
- What letters can be added to SOLAN?
- SOLAN takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOLAN:
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