ASSONANTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ASSONANTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ASSONANTAL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ASSONANTAL is to know. It scores 10 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ASSONANTAL
No single letter turns ASSONANTAL into another word.
How ASSONANTAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ASSONANTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ASSONANTAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ASSONANTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Having the same vowel sounds in stressed syllables but different consonants, as in "lake" and "fade".
An assonantal rhyme is looser than a perfect one, so poets use it for a quiet, musical echo. Spanish verse relies on this device heavily.
How ASSONANTAL is used
Used in poetry criticism.
- The poem relies on assonantal rhyme rather than exact matches.
- Critics noted the assonantal echoes in the second stanza.
- Folk songs are often assonantal rather than fully rhymed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ASSONANTAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ASSONANTAL
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Common questions about ASSONANTAL
- Is ASSONANTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ASSONANTAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ASSONANTAL worth?
- ASSONANTAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ASSONANTAL mean?
- Having the same vowel sounds in stressed syllables but different consonants, as in "lake" and "fade".
- What letters can be added to ASSONANTAL?
- No single letter can be added to ASSONANTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ASSONANTAL:
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