COBALTOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. COBALTOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COBALTOUS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COBALTOUS is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COBALTOUS
No single letter turns COBALTOUS into another word.
How COBALTOUS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in COBALTOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COBALTOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COBALTOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
chemistry
Containing cobalt in its lower valence, as in compounds where the metal has a charge of two.
Chemists use cobaltous to separate these compounds from cobaltic ones, where the metal carries a higher charge. Many cobaltous salts are pink in water and turn blue when dried.
How COBALTOUS is used
Appears in chemical names such as cobaltous chloride, an older style still seen in laboratories.
- The cobaltous solution turned from pink to blue on heating.
- Cobaltous chloride is used in humidity indicators.
- A cobaltous salt was dissolved in the beaker.
- The textbook contrasted cobaltous and cobaltic compounds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COBALTOUS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COBALTOUS
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Common questions about COBALTOUS
- Is COBALTOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COBALTOUS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COBALTOUS worth?
- COBALTOUS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COBALTOUS mean?
- Containing cobalt in its lower valence, as in compounds where the metal has a charge of two.
- What letters can be added to COBALTOUS?
- No single letter can be added to COBALTOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of COBALTOUS:
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