ANCHORLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ANCHORLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANCHORLESS?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANCHORLESS is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANCHORLESS
No single letter turns ANCHORLESS into another word.
How ANCHORLESS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ANCHORLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANCHORLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANCHORLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Lacking an anchor, and so not held fast in one place.
The word anchorless is built from anchor and the suffix -less, and it is easiest to picture on a boat that has lost its anchor. Writers also stretch it to people or ideas that have nothing steady to hold them in place.
How ANCHORLESS is used
Anchorless is used of vessels literally and of drifting lives or opinions figuratively.
- The anchorless skiff drifted slowly out of the bay.
- After the move he felt anchorless, with no friends and no routine.
- An anchorless raft is at the mercy of every current.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANCHORLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANCHORLESS
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Common questions about ANCHORLESS
- Is ANCHORLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANCHORLESS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANCHORLESS worth?
- ANCHORLESS is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANCHORLESS mean?
- Lacking an anchor, and so not held fast in one place.
- What letters can be added to ANCHORLESS?
- No single letter can be added to ANCHORLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ANCHORLESS:
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