ANTICULTURAL is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. ANTICULTURAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANTICULTURAL?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANTICULTURAL is to know. It scores 14 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANTICULTURAL
No single letter turns ANTICULTURAL into another word.
How ANTICULTURAL scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in ANTICULTURAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANTICULTURAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANTICULTURAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Hostile to culture, or set against the arts and refined learning that a society values.
The word turns up when a writer wants to describe an attitude rather than a person. Calling a mood anticultural suggests contempt for books, music and education alike, not merely indifference to them.
How ANTICULTURAL is used
Anticultural is found mostly in essays and criticism describing movements or attitudes that reject the arts.
- The critic called the new policy anticultural because it cut funding for every museum.
- An anticultural streak ran through the movement, which mocked poets and painters.
- His anticultural remarks shocked the guests at the opera.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANTICULTURAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANTICULTURAL
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Common questions about ANTICULTURAL
- Is ANTICULTURAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANTICULTURAL, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANTICULTURAL worth?
- ANTICULTURAL is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANTICULTURAL mean?
- Hostile to culture, or set against the arts and refined learning that a society values.
- What letters can be added to ANTICULTURAL?
- No single letter can be added to ANTICULTURAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of ANTICULTURAL:
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