AVENTURINE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. AVENTURINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AVENTURINE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AVENTURINE is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AVENTURINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
aventurinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AVENTURINE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in AVENTURINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so AVENTURINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does AVENTURINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A glassy gemstone, usually a variety of quartz, glittering with tiny flecks of mica or other minerals, or a glass made to look like it.
The sparkle of aventurine comes from small reflective inclusions inside the stone. Green is the commonest colour, though brown and blue also exist. Venetian glassmakers first produced the imitation by accident, and the name is borrowed from that chance discovery.
How AVENTURINE is used
Used in jewellery, mineralogy and glassmaking for the spangled stone or its glass imitation.
- She wore a bracelet of green aventurine beads.
- The vase was made of golden aventurine glass.
- Aventurine is often sold as a stone for luck.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AVENTURINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AVENTURINE
1 longer words begin with AVENTURINE.
Shorter words from the letters in AVENTURINE
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Common questions about AVENTURINE
- Is AVENTURINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AVENTURINE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AVENTURINE worth?
- AVENTURINE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AVENTURINE mean?
- A glassy gemstone, usually a variety of quartz, glittering with tiny flecks of mica or other minerals, or a glass made to look like it.
- What letters can be added to AVENTURINE?
- AVENTURINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of AVENTURINE:
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