SOWBELLY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. SOWBELLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOWBELLY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOWBELLY is to know. It scores 16 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOWBELLY
No single letter turns SOWBELLY into another word.
How SOWBELLY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SOWBELLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SOWBELLY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SOWBELLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
Salt pork cut from the fatty belly of a pig.
Sowbelly was a staple of frontier and army rations because salting kept it for months. Cooks fried it for fat or boiled it with beans.
How SOWBELLY is used
Mostly seen in historical writing about pioneers, cowboys and soldiers.
- The cook fried sowbelly with beans for the cowhands.
- Barrels of sowbelly were loaded onto the wagon.
- Soldiers grumbled about another meal of sowbelly.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOWBELLY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SOWBELLY
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Common questions about SOWBELLY
- Is SOWBELLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOWBELLY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOWBELLY worth?
- SOWBELLY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOWBELLY mean?
- Salt pork cut from the fatty belly of a pig.
- What letters can be added to SOWBELLY?
- No single letter can be added to SOWBELLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SOWBELLY:
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