ABLATE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ABLATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABLATE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABLATE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABLATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABLATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ABLATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does ABLATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To wear away or remove material gradually, especially by melting, evaporation, friction, or surgical means.
Engineers use ablate to describe a heat shield that burns and flakes away layer by layer as it protects a spacecraft during re-entry, carrying heat away with the material it loses. Surgeons use the same verb for removing tissue, such as treating an irregular heartbeat by targeting a small area with heat or cold until it ceases to conduct. In both fields, to ablate means the material is deliberately allowed to erode rather than staying intact.
How ABLATE is used
Used mainly in technical and medical contexts, rarely in everyday conversation.
- The heat shield began to ablate as the capsule re-entered the atmosphere.
- Surgeons can ablate the tissue causing the irregular heartbeat.
- Glaciers ablate faster in warmer summers.
- The nozzle lining is designed to ablate rather than melt through.
- Doctors decided to ablate the small growth rather than remove it surgically.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABLATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABLATE
2 longer words begin with ABLATE.
Shorter words from the letters in ABLATE
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Common questions about ABLATE
- Is ABLATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABLATE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABLATE worth?
- ABLATE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABLATE mean?
- To wear away or remove material gradually, especially by melting, evaporation, friction, or surgical means.
- What letters can be added to ABLATE?
- ABLATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ABLATE:
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