ABOUTS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABOUTS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABOUTS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABOUTS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABOUTS
No single letter turns ABOUTS into another word.
How ABOUTS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ABOUTS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does ABOUTS mean in Scrabble?
preposition
archaicdialect
Around, near, or in the vicinity of; an old and dialectal form of about.
Abouts adds an extra s to about, a pattern also seen in words like hereabouts and thereabouts, and the poet Spenser used the form in his verse. It survives today mostly in regional speech when someone asks roughly where a person or thing can be found.
How ABOUTS is used
Found in older literary English and regional dialect rather than standard modern usage.
- He asked abouts where the old mill used to stand.
- She wandered abouts the market looking for fresh bread.
- They searched abouts the barn for the missing tools.
- He lived somewhere abouts the edge of town.
- The dog stayed close abouts the house all afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABOUTS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ABOUTS
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Common questions about ABOUTS
- Is ABOUTS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABOUTS is not in it.
- How many points is ABOUTS worth?
- ABOUTS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABOUTS mean?
- Around, near, or in the vicinity of; an old and dialectal form of about.
- What letters can be added to ABOUTS?
- No single letter can be added to ABOUTS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ABOUTS:
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