ARTICULATORY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. ARTICULATORY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARTICULATORY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARTICULATORY is to know. It scores 17 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARTICULATORY
No single letter turns ARTICULATORY into another word.
How ARTICULATORY scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in ARTICULATORY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ARTICULATORY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ARTICULATORY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Concerned with the movements of the tongue, lips and other organs that produce speech sounds.
Articulatory phonetics studies how sounds are made in the mouth rather than how they are heard. The adjective sets this physical side of speech apart from its acoustic side.
How ARTICULATORY is used
Standard in linguistics, as in articulatory features or articulatory gestures.
- The lesson covered articulatory differences between the two vowels.
- An articulatory problem made her lisp noticeable.
- Scanners now track articulatory movements in real time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARTICULATORY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ARTICULATORY
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Common questions about ARTICULATORY
- Is ARTICULATORY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARTICULATORY, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARTICULATORY worth?
- ARTICULATORY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARTICULATORY mean?
- Concerned with the movements of the tongue, lips and other organs that produce speech sounds.
- What letters can be added to ARTICULATORY?
- No single letter can be added to ARTICULATORY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of ARTICULATORY:
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