AORIST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. AORIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AORIST?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AORIST is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AORIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
aoristsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AORIST scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AORIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,775.
What stands out about AORIST
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AORIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A verb tense, found chiefly in classical Greek and Sanskrit, that expresses a past action simply as a completed event without indicating whether it was brief, ongoing, or repeated.
The aorist stands apart from tenses such as the imperfect or perfect because it describes an action in past time as a bare fact, leaving its duration and completion unspecified. Students of classical Greek learn the aorist early, since it is the most common way ancient authors reported that something simply happened. English has no exact equivalent, so translators usually render an aorist verb form with the plain simple past tense.
How AORIST is used
A specialized grammatical term used in the study of classical languages rather than in everyday English grammar.
- The professor asked students to identify the aorist in the sentence.
- An aorist verb form appeared three times in the short passage.
- Translators often struggle to capture the aorist in modern English.
- The textbook devoted an entire chapter to forming the aorist correctly.
- Ancient historians frequently used the aorist to narrate events.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AORIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AORIST
The 6 tiles of AORIST in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with AORIST
3 longer words begin with AORIST.
Shorter words from the letters in AORIST
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Common questions about AORIST
- Is AORIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AORIST, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AORIST worth?
- AORIST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AORIST mean?
- A verb tense, found chiefly in classical Greek and Sanskrit, that expresses a past action simply as a completed event without indicating whether it was brief, ongoing, or repeated.
- What letters can be added to AORIST?
- AORIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AORIST:
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