ALUDEL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ALUDEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALUDEL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALUDEL is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALUDEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
aludelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALUDEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ALUDEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does ALUDEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistryhistorical
A ceramic or glass vessel shaped like a pear and open at both ends, designed to fit one on top of another in a stack for the process of sublimation.
An aludel formed part of a stacked chain of identical pots, the neck of one fitting into the base of the next, so vapor rising from a heated substance below could cool and condense as it passed upward through the chain. Alchemists relied on the aludel for purifying substances such as mercury or sulfur, collecting the solid that formed on the inner walls of each pot. The device largely disappeared once laboratory glassware such as the modern condenser replaced it, so the word now belongs mostly to the history of chemistry.
How ALUDEL is used
A specialist term met in the history of alchemy and early chemistry rather than in a modern laboratory.
- The museum displays a cracked aludel found in an old apothecary's workshop.
- Medieval alchemists stacked one aludel above another to purify mercury.
- The manuscript includes a sketch of an aludel and its furnace.
- Sulfur crystals formed on the inner wall of the aludel.
- Historians describe the aludel as an ancestor of the modern condenser.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALUDEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALUDEL
The 6 tiles of ALUDEL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALUDEL
1 longer words begin with ALUDEL.
Shorter words from the letters in ALUDEL
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Common questions about ALUDEL
- Is ALUDEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALUDEL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALUDEL worth?
- ALUDEL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALUDEL mean?
- A ceramic or glass vessel shaped like a pear and open at both ends, designed to fit one on top of another in a stack for the process of sublimation.
- What letters can be added to ALUDEL?
- ALUDEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ALUDEL:
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