CATALEPSY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. CATALEPSY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CATALEPSY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CATALEPSY is to know. It scores 16 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CATALEPSY
Front hooks — 1
acatalepsyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How CATALEPSY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CATALEPSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CATALEPSY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CATALEPSY mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A trancelike condition in which the body becomes rigid and the person does not respond to the surroundings.
In catalepsy, muscles stay stiff and limbs may hold any position they are placed in, while awareness of the world seems lost. Old stories of people being buried alive often blame mistaken cases of catalepsy.
How CATALEPSY is used
Used in medicine and literature for a rigid, unresponsive state.
- The patient fell into catalepsy and lay completely still.
- Writers of gothic tales loved the idea of catalepsy.
- Doctors linked the catalepsy to a severe nervous illness.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CATALEPSY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CATALEPSY
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Common questions about CATALEPSY
- Is CATALEPSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CATALEPSY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CATALEPSY worth?
- CATALEPSY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CATALEPSY mean?
- A trancelike condition in which the body becomes rigid and the person does not respond to the surroundings.
- What letters can be added to CATALEPSY?
- CATALEPSY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CATALEPSY:
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