ABBREVIATOR is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. ABBREVIATOR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABBREVIATOR?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABBREVIATOR is to know. It scores 18 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABBREVIATOR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABBREVIATOR scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ABBREVIATOR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ABBREVIATOR has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ABBREVIATOR mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A person who shortens a text or a word, or who writes in abbreviated form.
An abbreviator may be a copyist who compresses a long manuscript or an editor who prepares a digest. In church history the word also named an officer who drafted papal documents in short form.
How ABBREVIATOR is used
Rare and mostly historical or scholarly.
- The abbreviator reduced the three volumes to a single readable summary.
- A medieval abbreviator often left out the dull passages.
- Our abbreviator turned each long title into three letters.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABBREVIATOR and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABBREVIATOR
2 longer words begin with ABBREVIATOR.
Shorter words from the letters in ABBREVIATOR
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Common questions about ABBREVIATOR
- Is ABBREVIATOR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABBREVIATOR, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABBREVIATOR worth?
- ABBREVIATOR is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABBREVIATOR mean?
- A person who shortens a text or a word, or who writes in abbreviated form.
- What letters can be added to ABBREVIATOR?
- ABBREVIATOR takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ABBREVIATOR:
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