ALLOCATABLE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ALLOCATABLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLOCATABLE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLOCATABLE is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLOCATABLE
No single letter turns ALLOCATABLE into another word.
How ALLOCATABLE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ALLOCATABLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| l | 3 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALLOCATABLE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALLOCATABLE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Capable of being assigned or distributed for a particular purpose or to particular recipients.
Budgets, memory, seats and staff time can all be allocatable, meaning they are available to be divided up and handed out. Accountants and computer scientists use the word often, as in allocatable funds or allocatable resources.
How ALLOCATABLE is used
Allocatable is common in finance and computing for resources that can be divided and assigned.
- Only part of the grant was allocatable to salaries.
- The system tracks how much allocatable memory remains.
- Every allocatable seat on the flight had been sold.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLOCATABLE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ALLOCATABLE
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Common questions about ALLOCATABLE
- Is ALLOCATABLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLOCATABLE, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLOCATABLE worth?
- ALLOCATABLE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLOCATABLE mean?
- Capable of being assigned or distributed for a particular purpose or to particular recipients.
- What letters can be added to ALLOCATABLE?
- No single letter can be added to ALLOCATABLE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ALLOCATABLE:
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