Affricates is valid Scrabble Word

Is affricates a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is affricates valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for AFFRICATES in dictionary:

NOUN:

AFFRICATE, a consonant that begins as a plosive and ends as a fricative
a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g. ch as in chair and j as in jar.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (as the \t\ and \sh\ of \ch\ in choose)
a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (as the \\t\\ and \\sh\\ of \\ch\\ in choose)

Words related to AFFRICATES

affricate17

Similar words containing AFFRICATE without suffix s

affricate17 affricated19

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