VIAS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. VIAS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VIAS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VIAS is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VIAS
No single letter turns VIAS into another word.
How VIAS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in VIAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What stands out about VIAS
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 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 VIAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A plural form of via, the Latin word for a way or road, occasionally used in English.
Writers reach for vias when they want the Latin plural rather than the ordinary English ways, most often in legal, scientific, or ceremonial Latin phrases carried over into English text. The singular via lives on far more widely in English, both as a preposition meaning by way of and, in electronics, as the name for a tiny hole that links layers of a circuit board.
How VIAS is used
Rare in ordinary English; found mostly in Latin phrases and historical or legal text.
- The old charter listed several vias leading into the city.
- Latin inscriptions sometimes named the vias radiating from the forum.
- The scholar translated vias simply as roads.
- Medieval maps marked the vias connecting the old towns.
- The ceremony's Latin text referred to the vias of the pilgrimage.
- Historians traced trade along the ancient vias of the region.
- The document used vias rather than the plain English word roads.
- Each of the vias on the map led back to the same crossroads.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VIAS and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see VIAS
- Vias is one of several short Latin loanwords that word-game dictionaries admit even though English speakers rarely use them outside legal or scholarly Latin phrases.
- The related singular of vias also names, in electronics, a tiny hole that connects layers of a circuit board, a sense unrelated to roads.
Anagrams of VIAS
The 4 tiles of VIAS in a different order — 2 found.
Words ending in VIAS
7 words end in VIAS. Useful as a back hook: play VIAS onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in VIAS
Common questions about VIAS
- Is VIAS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VIAS is not in it.
- How many points is VIAS worth?
- VIAS is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VIAS mean?
- A plural form of via, the Latin word for a way or road, occasionally used in English.
- What letters can be added to VIAS?
- No single letter can be added to VIAS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of VIAS:
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