ANIMATO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ANIMATO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANIMATO?
| 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: 55 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANIMATO is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANIMATO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANIMATO scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ANIMATO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 85,774.
What does ANIMATO mean in Scrabble?
adverb
music
In a lively, spirited manner, used as a direction telling a performer how to play a passage.
Composers write animato above a phrase when the music should suddenly feel more energetic. It is an Italian loan that appears in scores rather than in everyday speech, and it can also name the passage itself.
How ANIMATO is used
Musicians meet animato as a performance marking printed over a bar or phrase.
- The conductor asked the strings to play the last eight bars animato.
- The score is marked animato just before the final chorus.
- She took the animato section a little faster than the rest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANIMATO and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANIMATO
The 7 tiles of ANIMATO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ANIMATO
3 longer words begin with ANIMATO.
Shorter words from the letters in ANIMATO
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Common questions about ANIMATO
- Is ANIMATO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANIMATO, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANIMATO worth?
- ANIMATO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANIMATO mean?
- In a lively, spirited manner, used as a direction telling a performer how to play a passage.
- What letters can be added to ANIMATO?
- ANIMATO takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ANIMATO:
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