YOLO is not a Scrabble word — it is valid only in Words with Friends
No for Scrabble. YOLO is in none of the Scrabble word lists, but Words with Friends accepts it: that game keeps its own list, and it includes short forms that the paper dictionaries never carried. Worth 7 points there.
Which word lists accept YOLO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Not listed |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YOLO is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YOLO
No single letter turns YOLO into another word.
How YOLO scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in YOLO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 17,505.
What does YOLO mean in Scrabble?
interjection
informal
Said to justify doing something reckless, from you only live once.
Yolo arrived in 2011 with a rap lyric and was exhausted within two years, which is fast even for internet speech. What survives is the ironic use: people now say yolo mostly about small decisions, and the joke is the gap between the size of the risk and the size of the words.
How YOLO is used
Stands alone, usually after the decision rather than before it, and rarely in writing that anyone will reread.
- He booked the flight the same evening and typed yolo.
- Yolo, said nobody who had read the terms.
- She ordered the expensive one and said yolo to the waiter.
- The word yolo aged faster than the trend it described.
- Yolo covers a haircut better than it covers a mortgage.
- They put yolo on the cake, which was the point.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YOLO and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with YOLO inside
Showing 24 of 31 words that contain YOLO somewhere in the middle. Words that start with YOLO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in YOLO
Common questions about YOLO
- Is YOLO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YOLO, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YOLO worth?
- YOLO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YOLO mean?
- Said to justify doing something reckless, from you only live once.
- What letters can be added to YOLO?
- No single letter can be added to YOLO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of YOLO:
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