BOLTHEAD is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BOLTHEAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOLTHEAD?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOLTHEAD is to know. It scores 14 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOLTHEAD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
boltheadsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOLTHEAD scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BOLTHEAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BOLTHEAD has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about BOLTHEAD
- All 8 letters of BOLTHEAD are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BOLTHEAD mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A glass flask with a round body and a long straight neck, used for distillation.
Chemists once heated liquids in a bolthead and let the vapour rise up the neck. The word also names the enlarged top of an ordinary bolt, the end a wrench grips.
How BOLTHEAD is used
Old laboratory term; also a plain hardware word.
- The alchemist heated the mixture in a bolthead.
- The mechanic gripped the bolthead with a spanner.
- A cracked bolthead stood on the shelf.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOLTHEAD and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOLTHEAD
1 longer words begin with BOLTHEAD.
Shorter words from the letters in BOLTHEAD
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Common questions about BOLTHEAD
- Is BOLTHEAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOLTHEAD, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOLTHEAD worth?
- BOLTHEAD is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOLTHEAD mean?
- A glass flask with a round body and a long straight neck, used for distillation.
- What letters can be added to BOLTHEAD?
- BOLTHEAD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BOLTHEAD:
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