ANTIPOETIC is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. ANTIPOETIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANTIPOETIC?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANTIPOETIC is to know. It scores 14 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANTIPOETIC
No single letter turns ANTIPOETIC into another word.
How ANTIPOETIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ANTIPOETIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANTIPOETIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANTIPOETIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Opposed to traditional poetry, or lacking any poetic quality.
Some modern poets deliberately take an antipoetic stance, writing in flat everyday speech instead of ornate verse. A critic may also call a dull or ugly passage antipoetic when it has no beauty at all.
How ANTIPOETIC is used
Used in literary criticism about style, tone or a movement.
- The poet took an antipoetic approach, filling his lines with street slang.
- Critics found the antipoetic bluntness refreshing.
- An antipoetic mood runs through the collection.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANTIPOETIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANTIPOETIC
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Common questions about ANTIPOETIC
- Is ANTIPOETIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANTIPOETIC, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANTIPOETIC worth?
- ANTIPOETIC is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANTIPOETIC mean?
- Opposed to traditional poetry, or lacking any poetic quality.
- What letters can be added to ANTIPOETIC?
- No single letter can be added to ANTIPOETIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ANTIPOETIC:
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