ARTEL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ARTEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARTEL?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARTEL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARTEL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ARTEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ARTEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,841.
What stands out about ARTEL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 ARTEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A cooperative association of workers or craftsmen, especially one formed in pre-revolutionary Russia, who shared labour, tools and earnings.
Members of an artel typically pooled their skills and equipment to take on work as a group, then divided the profit among themselves rather than working for a single employer. The arrangement was common among fishermen, carpenters, and other tradesmen in the Russian Empire, and some forms of the artel continued into the early Soviet period before being absorbed into state-run cooperatives. Historians use artel to describe this specific kind of worker-owned association rather than any general partnership. The word occasionally appears in English writing about Russian economic history or rural life.
How ARTEL is used
Historical term from Russian economic and social life; used mainly in translation and in writing about Russia's past.
- The fishermen organised themselves into an artel to share the catch.
- An old artel of carpenters built most of the village houses.
- Profits from the artel were split evenly among its members.
- The traveller described staying with an artel of road workers.
- Some cooperatives trace their roots back to the artel system.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARTEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARTEL
The 5 tiles of ARTEL in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with ARTEL
2 longer words begin with ARTEL.
Words ending in ARTEL
2 words end in ARTEL. Useful as a back hook: play ARTEL onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARTEL inside
Showing 24 of 35 words that contain ARTEL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ARTEL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARTEL
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Common questions about ARTEL
- Is ARTEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARTEL, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARTEL worth?
- ARTEL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARTEL mean?
- A cooperative association of workers or craftsmen, especially one formed in pre-revolutionary Russia, who shared labour, tools and earnings.
- What letters can be added to ARTEL?
- ARTEL takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ARTEL:
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