CALENDAL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CALENDAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CALENDAL?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CALENDAL is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CALENDAL
No single letter turns CALENDAL into another word.
How CALENDAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in CALENDAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CALENDAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CALENDAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rarehistorical
Relating to the calends, the first day of a month in the ancient Roman reckoning of time.
The word calendal turns up almost only in writing about Roman dating customs. Romans counted days backwards from fixed points, and calendal matters concern the first of those points. It is a scholar's term rather than an everyday one.
How CALENDAL is used
Used in historical and classical writing about the Roman way of reckoning dates, never in modern speech.
- The historian explained the calendal reckoning that Roman clerks used when writing a date.
- A calendal payment fell due on the first day of each Roman month.
- The scholar compared calendal and idal dates in the old inscription.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CALENDAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CALENDAL
The 8 tiles of CALENDAL in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in CALENDAL
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Common questions about CALENDAL
- Is CALENDAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CALENDAL, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CALENDAL worth?
- CALENDAL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CALENDAL mean?
- Relating to the calends, the first day of a month in the ancient Roman reckoning of time.
- What letters can be added to CALENDAL?
- No single letter can be added to CALENDAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of CALENDAL:
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