ALLODIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ALLODIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALLODIAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALLODIAL is to know. It scores 9 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALLODIAL
No single letter turns ALLODIAL into another word.
How ALLODIAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ALLODIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 3 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ALLODIAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ALLODIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legalhistorical
Describing land that is owned outright, free of any rent, service or duty to an overlord.
Allodial ownership is the opposite of the feudal arrangement in which land was held in return for service. Historians use allodial when they want to stress that an estate had no lord standing above its owner.
How ALLODIAL is used
Allodial appears mostly in legal and medieval history writing about land tenure.
- The family kept an allodial farm that owed nothing to any baron.
- Under allodial title the owner answered to no superior for the land.
- Scholars still debate how much allodial land survived the rise of feudalism.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALLODIAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about ALLODIAL
- Is ALLODIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALLODIAL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALLODIAL worth?
- ALLODIAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALLODIAL mean?
- Describing land that is owned outright, free of any rent, service or duty to an overlord.
- What letters can be added to ALLODIAL?
- No single letter can be added to ALLODIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ALLODIAL:
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