AMELIORATE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. AMELIORATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AMELIORATE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMELIORATE is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMELIORATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AMELIORATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in AMELIORATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AMELIORATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AMELIORATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To make something bad or unsatisfactory better.
Ameliorate is a formal word, common in policy and medical writing, for easing a problem without necessarily solving it. It is the standard form of the rarer meliorate, which has the same sense.
How AMELIORATE is used
Formal; used with objects such as conditions, symptoms, poverty or effects.
- New drains will ameliorate the flooding.
- The medicine helped to ameliorate her symptoms.
- Officials hoped to ameliorate conditions in the camp.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMELIORATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AMELIORATE
2 longer words begin with AMELIORATE.
Shorter words from the letters in AMELIORATE
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Common questions about AMELIORATE
- Is AMELIORATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AMELIORATE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AMELIORATE worth?
- AMELIORATE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMELIORATE mean?
- To make something bad or unsatisfactory better.
- What letters can be added to AMELIORATE?
- AMELIORATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of AMELIORATE:
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