Menu
Find words
/sæp/
nounverb

Is SAP a Scrabble word?

Yes. SAP is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Meaning The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Noun 4 meanings

  1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

  2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

  3. Any juice.

  4. Vitality.

Verb 3 meanings

  1. To exhaust the vitality of.

  2. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

  3. To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).

    “to sap one’s conscience”

Definitions adapted from Wiktionary: sap via Kaikki/Wiktextract, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)).

SAP at a glance

SAP has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (S 1 + A 1 + P 3) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #12,842 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).

Words ending in -SAP

More endings

Same last three letters as SAP. This is a spelling match, so not every word here rhymes.

  • WINESAP12
  • PINESAP11

One letter away

Change one letter, keep the rest

Keep going