VIOLD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. VIOLD 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 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VIOLD?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VIOLD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VIOLD
No single letter turns VIOLD into another word.
How VIOLD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in VIOLD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does VIOLD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicpoeticliterary
Placed or sealed in a vial; an archaic and poetic past form of vial.
Viold describes something, often a liquid such as tears or a remedy, that has been shut away inside a small bottle for safekeeping. The form appears in the poetry of John Milton, where older verbs were freely turned into descriptive past forms.
How VIOLD is used
Found only in older poetic texts, chiefly associated with Milton.
- The perfume lay viold on the apothecary's shelf.
- Milton describes tears viold and kept for later grief.
- The rare oil was viold before the long voyage.
- Each remedy was viold and labelled by hand.
- The poet imagined sorrow viold like a keepsake.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VIOLD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in VIOLD
Common questions about VIOLD
- Is VIOLD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VIOLD is not in it.
- How many points is VIOLD worth?
- VIOLD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VIOLD mean?
- Placed or sealed in a vial; an archaic and poetic past form of vial.
- What letters can be added to VIOLD?
- No single letter can be added to VIOLD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of VIOLD:
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