BOOTLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BOOTLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOOTLESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOOTLESS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOOTLESS
No single letter turns BOOTLESS into another word.
How BOOTLESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BOOTLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BOOTLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BOOTLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Having no result or advantage, so that the effort is wasted.
This old-fashioned word has nothing to do with footwear; the root is an older sense of boot meaning profit or help. You will meet bootless mainly in poems, plays and formal prose that talk about hopeless struggles.
How BOOTLESS is used
Literary and dated, describing a task or attempt that achieves nothing.
- It was a bootless errand, for the shop had already closed.
- The old king wept over bootless wars that had cost him his sons.
- All her bootless pleading changed nothing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOOTLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOOTLESS
3 longer words begin with BOOTLESS.
Shorter words from the letters in BOOTLESS
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Common questions about BOOTLESS
- Is BOOTLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOOTLESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOOTLESS worth?
- BOOTLESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOOTLESS mean?
- Having no result or advantage, so that the effort is wasted.
- What letters can be added to BOOTLESS?
- No single letter can be added to BOOTLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BOOTLESS:
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