VALLUM is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. VALLUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VALLUM?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VALLUM is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VALLUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vallumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VALLUM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in VALLUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What does VALLUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A rampart or defensive wall of earth and stakes, especially the barrier built by the Romans along a frontier or around a camp.
The Latin word first described a palisade of stakes set on a bank of earth, and Roman soldiers built one around every camp where they stopped for the night. Today vallum is used mostly by archaeologists and historians, and its best known appearance is the broad ditch and mounds that ran just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain. Reading about the vallum, one learns that it marked a controlled zone behind the wall itself.
How VALLUM is used
Technical and historical; met in writing on Roman archaeology rather than in general speech.
- The vallum ran along the southern side of the wall as a deep ditch between two mounds.
- Archaeologists traced the line of the vallum across three farms.
- Each night the legion dug a ditch and raised a vallum of earth and stakes around the camp.
- A crossing point in the vallum allowed supply carts to reach the forts.
- The guidebook explained how the vallum differed from the wall it accompanied.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VALLUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VALLUM
1 longer words begin with VALLUM.
Shorter words from the letters in VALLUM
Common questions about VALLUM
- Is VALLUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VALLUM, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VALLUM worth?
- VALLUM is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VALLUM mean?
- A rampart or defensive wall of earth and stakes, especially the barrier built by the Romans along a frontier or around a camp.
- What letters can be added to VALLUM?
- VALLUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of VALLUM:
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