ACHROMATIZE is a valid Scrabble word — 27 points
Yes. ACHROMATIZE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 27 points in Scrabble and 28 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ACHROMATIZE?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ACHROMATIZE is to know. It scores 27 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ACHROMATIZE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ACHROMATIZE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ACHROMATIZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ACHROMATIZE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ACHROMATIZE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To remove colour from something, especially to correct a lens so that it does not split light into colours.
Opticians achromatize a lens by combining glasses of different kinds so the coloured fringes cancel out. The word can also mean to make something colourless in a more general way. It is mostly met in the history of telescopes.
How ACHROMATIZE is used
Rare and technical, used in optics and older scientific writing.
- Makers learned to achromatize telescope lenses with two kinds of glass.
- The goal was to achromatize the image so that no coloured edges remained.
- A good design can achromatize a small lens at modest cost.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ACHROMATIZE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ACHROMATIZE
2 longer words begin with ACHROMATIZE.
Shorter words from the letters in ACHROMATIZE
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Common questions about ACHROMATIZE
- Is ACHROMATIZE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ACHROMATIZE, where it scores 28 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ACHROMATIZE worth?
- ACHROMATIZE is worth 27 points in Scrabble and 28 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ACHROMATIZE mean?
- To remove colour from something, especially to correct a lens so that it does not split light into colours.
- What letters can be added to ACHROMATIZE?
- ACHROMATIZE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ACHROMATIZE:
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