ATONAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ATONAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ATONAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATONAL is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATONAL
No single letter turns ATONAL into another word.
How ATONAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ATONAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,744.
What does ATONAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
music
Not written in or built around any traditional musical key or tonal centre.
Atonal music avoids the usual sense of a home key that most listeners expect from tonal music, so it can sound unsettled or unfamiliar to ears used to conventional harmony. The term is closely associated with early twentieth-century composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, who developed methods for organising pitch without relying on traditional tonality. Atonal is often discussed alongside the related idea of the twelve-tone technique, one systematic way of composing atonal music, though not all atonal music follows that particular system.
How ATONAL is used
A technical term from music theory and composition, used to describe works that avoid a traditional key or tonal centre.
- The composer wrote an atonal string quartet that unsettled much of the audience.
- Music students studied Schoenberg's shift toward atonal composition.
- The film score used atonal passages to build a sense of dread.
- Critics debated whether the symphony's final movement was truly atonal.
- He prefers atonal jazz improvisation over conventional chord changes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATONAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ATONAL
7 longer words begin with ATONAL.
Shorter words from the letters in ATONAL
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Common questions about ATONAL
- Is ATONAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ATONAL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ATONAL worth?
- ATONAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATONAL mean?
- Not written in or built around any traditional musical key or tonal centre.
- What letters can be added to ATONAL?
- No single letter can be added to ATONAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ATONAL:
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