TOMBAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TOMBAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TOMBAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOMBAL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOMBAL
No single letter turns TOMBAL into another word.
How TOMBAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in TOMBAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does TOMBAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rareliterary
Belonging to a tomb, or suggesting the gloom and stillness of one.
Tombal is a rare adjective built from the noun tomb, and writers reach for it when ordinary words feel too plain. It can describe a stone slab, an inscription, a chill or a silence that seems to come from a burial place. Because few speakers know it, tombal appears almost only in elevated or deliberately gloomy prose.
How TOMBAL is used
Rare and literary; most writers use the phrase "of a tomb" or the adjective funereal instead.
- A tombal silence settled over the crypt.
- The tombal slab was cracked and green with moss.
- He read the tombal inscription by the light of one candle.
- There was something tombal about the cold hall.
- The poet described a tombal chill that climbed from the cellar.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOMBAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TOMBAL
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Common questions about TOMBAL
- Is TOMBAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOMBAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOMBAL worth?
- TOMBAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOMBAL mean?
- Belonging to a tomb, or suggesting the gloom and stillness of one.
- What letters can be added to TOMBAL?
- No single letter can be added to TOMBAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of TOMBAL:
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