CARTEL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CARTEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CARTEL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CARTEL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CARTEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cartelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CARTEL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CARTEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about CARTEL
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CARTEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A group of separate businesses, producers, or, in current usage, criminal organizations, that combine to control prices, output or territory instead of competing freely.
A cartel forms when otherwise competing firms or organizations agree to act together, most often to keep prices high, limit supply, or divide up markets rather than compete openly. The term is best known today from oil cartels such as OPEC and from the drug cartels that dominate parts of the illegal narcotics trade, but it applies equally to any industry secretly coordinating output. In an older, now largely historical sense, a cartel was a written challenge to single combat or a formal agreement between warring states for exchanging prisoners, a meaning almost entirely replaced by the economic one.
How CARTEL is used
Common in business, economics and news reporting, especially of drug cartels and price-fixing among companies.
- The oil-producing nations formed a cartel to control global prices.
- Prosecutors accused the companies of running an illegal price-fixing cartel.
- The drug cartel controlled smuggling routes across the border.
- Regulators fined several airlines for operating a secret cartel.
- Historians described the treaty as an old-fashioned cartel between rival kingdoms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CARTEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CARTEL
The 6 tiles of CARTEL in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with CARTEL
17 longer words begin with CARTEL.
Shorter words from the letters in CARTEL
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Common questions about CARTEL
- Is CARTEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CARTEL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CARTEL worth?
- CARTEL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CARTEL mean?
- A group of separate businesses, producers, or, in current usage, criminal organizations, that combine to control prices, output or territory instead of competing freely.
- What letters can be added to CARTEL?
- CARTEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CARTEL:
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