ARCADIA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ARCADIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARCADIA?
| 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: 56 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARCADIA is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARCADIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARCADIA scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ARCADIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 441,125.
What stands out about ARCADIA
- ARCADIA begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARCADIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
An ideal rural place of peace and simple contentment.
The name comes from a hilly region of Greece that poets imagined as a pastoral paradise. Writers now use arcadia for any country setting pictured as free from the cares of town life.
How ARCADIA is used
The word arcadia is often written with a capital for the Greek region and in lower case for the ideal.
- The painter pictured the valley as a lost arcadia.
- They dreamed of an arcadia far from the noisy city.
- The poem sets shepherds and flutes in an arcadia of green hills.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARCADIA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ARCADIA
3 longer words begin with ARCADIA.
Shorter words from the letters in ARCADIA
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Common questions about ARCADIA
- Is ARCADIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARCADIA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARCADIA worth?
- ARCADIA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARCADIA mean?
- An ideal rural place of peace and simple contentment.
- What letters can be added to ARCADIA?
- ARCADIA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ARCADIA:
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