SYLPH is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. SYLPH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYLPH?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYLPH is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYLPH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SYLPH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SYLPH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 588,184.
What does SYLPH mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
An imaginary spirit believed to inhabit the air; also, a slender and graceful young woman.
Sylph comes from a system of elemental spirits described by a sixteenth-century writer, in which sylphs represented the element of air, alongside spirits of earth, fire and water. Poets later borrowed the image of a light, airy sylph to praise a woman's graceful figure and movement, and this figurative sense is now the more common use of the word in everyday English. Calling someone a sylph suggests slenderness combined with a kind of floating elegance, rather than simple thinness. The word keeps a slightly old-fashioned, literary flavour even in modern writing.
How SYLPH is used
Literary; used both for a mythical air spirit and, more often, as an admiring description of a graceful, slender woman.
- The old legend describes a sylph dancing on the morning breeze.
- The dancer moved across the stage like a sylph.
- Poets once compared the young bride to a sylph.
- In the story, a sylph guards the mountain air.
- Her slight, graceful frame made her look like a sylph.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYLPH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYLPH
13 longer words begin with SYLPH.
Shorter words from the letters in SYLPH
Common questions about SYLPH
- Is SYLPH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYLPH, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYLPH worth?
- SYLPH is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYLPH mean?
- An imaginary spirit believed to inhabit the air; also, a slender and graceful young woman.
- What letters can be added to SYLPH?
- SYLPH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SYLPH:
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