BARDOLATRY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. BARDOLATRY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARDOLATRY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BARDOLATRY is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARDOLATRY
No single letter turns BARDOLATRY into another word.
How BARDOLATRY scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in BARDOLATRY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BARDOLATRY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BARDOLATRY mean in Scrabble?
noun
humorousliterary
Excessive admiration or worship of William Shakespeare.
The word was coined, half in jest, to mock critics who treated every line of Shakespeare as flawless. Bardolatry in this sense is a form of hero worship, and George Bernard Shaw famously used the term.
How BARDOLATRY is used
Often critical or teasing; appears in literary criticism and essays about Shakespeare.
- Shaw attacked the bardolatry of Victorian theatre-goers.
- Her essay warned against bardolatry and urged honest criticism.
- Some schools are accused of bardolatry for studying only Shakespeare.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARDOLATRY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BARDOLATRY
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Common questions about BARDOLATRY
- Is BARDOLATRY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARDOLATRY, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARDOLATRY worth?
- BARDOLATRY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARDOLATRY mean?
- Excessive admiration or worship of William Shakespeare.
- What letters can be added to BARDOLATRY?
- No single letter can be added to BARDOLATRY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of BARDOLATRY:
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