SYLVA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SYLVA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYLVA?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYLVA is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYLVA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SYLVA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SYLVA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SYLVA mean in Scrabble?
noun
An older spelling of silva, naming either the total tree growth of a region or a listing that surveys it.
A sylva can refer either to the actual tree cover of a country, as in the sylva of North America, or to a book cataloguing and describing that tree cover, following the example of John Evelyn's seventeenth-century work Sylva. The word comes from the Latin silva, meaning woodland or forest, the same root that gives English words like sylvan. Foresters and botanists still use sylva when they want to speak of a whole assemblage of native trees rather than any single species. Because the word sounds technical, it appears far more often in scientific or historical writing than in everyday conversation.
How SYLVA is used
Chiefly technical or literary, used in forestry and botany for the trees of a region collectively or for a book describing them.
- The botanist spent decades cataloguing the sylva of the eastern forests.
- His book on the national sylva became a standard reference for foresters.
- The sylva of the island includes several species found nowhere else.
- Evelyn's famous study of the English sylva shaped later forestry practice.
- Changes in climate are altering the sylva across the whole region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYLVA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYLVA
9 longer words begin with SYLVA.
Shorter words from the letters in SYLVA
Common questions about SYLVA
- Is SYLVA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYLVA, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYLVA worth?
- SYLVA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYLVA mean?
- An older spelling of silva, naming either the total tree growth of a region or a listing that surveys it.
- What letters can be added to SYLVA?
- SYLVA takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SYLVA:
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