ALLEGORIST is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ALLEGORIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLEGORIST?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLEGORIST is to know. It scores 11 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLEGORIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
allegoristsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALLEGORIST scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ALLEGORIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALLEGORIST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALLEGORIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A writer or interpreter who works in allegory, telling stories whose figures stand for deeper ideas.
John Bunyan is the classic English allegorist, with his pilgrim travelling through symbolic places. The label can also fit a critic who reads texts as allegory. An allegorist depends on the reader decoding the symbols.
How ALLEGORIST is used
The word allegorist is used in literary criticism for authors and readers of symbolic narrative.
- Bunyan is remembered as a great Christian allegorist.
- The allegorist cast greed and pride as characters in a play.
- As an allegorist, she preferred symbols to plain description.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLEGORIST and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALLEGORIST
The 10 tiles of ALLEGORIST in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALLEGORIST
1 longer words begin with ALLEGORIST.
Shorter words from the letters in ALLEGORIST
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Common questions about ALLEGORIST
- Is ALLEGORIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLEGORIST, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLEGORIST worth?
- ALLEGORIST is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLEGORIST mean?
- A writer or interpreter who works in allegory, telling stories whose figures stand for deeper ideas.
- What letters can be added to ALLEGORIST?
- ALLEGORIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ALLEGORIST:
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