APHAERETIC is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. APHAERETIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept APHAERETIC?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful APHAERETIC is to know. It scores 17 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for APHAERETIC
No single letter turns APHAERETIC into another word.
How APHAERETIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in APHAERETIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so APHAERETIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does APHAERETIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to the loss of a sound or letter from the start of a word.
Linguists call the shortening of "around" to "round" an aphaeretic change. It is a normal process in speech, and many everyday words took their modern shape this way.
How APHAERETIC is used
Aphaeretic is a linguistics term, seen in writing on word history and sound change.
- The aphaeretic form of "because" is "cause".
- An aphaeretic change dropped the first vowel of the word.
- "Squire" is an aphaeretic shortening of "esquire".
- The scholar listed several aphaeretic forms in the dialect.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of APHAERETIC and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in APHAERETIC
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Common questions about APHAERETIC
- Is APHAERETIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts APHAERETIC, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is APHAERETIC worth?
- APHAERETIC is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does APHAERETIC mean?
- Relating to the loss of a sound or letter from the start of a word.
- What letters can be added to APHAERETIC?
- No single letter can be added to APHAERETIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of APHAERETIC:
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