COLPORTAGE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. COLPORTAGE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLPORTAGE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLPORTAGE is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLPORTAGE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
colportagesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COLPORTAGE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in COLPORTAGE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COLPORTAGE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COLPORTAGE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
The business of travelling around to sell or give out books, especially religious ones.
Colportage was once a main way for printed matter to reach villages with no bookshop. Societies paid colporteurs to carry Bibles and tracts door to door.
How COLPORTAGE is used
Mainly historical; it often appears in writing about nineteenth-century religion and publishing.
- Colportage brought cheap pamphlets to remote farms.
- The society funded colportage across the mountain districts.
- Her grandfather made a modest living from colportage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLPORTAGE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLPORTAGE
1 longer words begin with COLPORTAGE.
Shorter words from the letters in COLPORTAGE
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Common questions about COLPORTAGE
- Is COLPORTAGE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLPORTAGE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLPORTAGE worth?
- COLPORTAGE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLPORTAGE mean?
- The business of travelling around to sell or give out books, especially religious ones.
- What letters can be added to COLPORTAGE?
- COLPORTAGE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of COLPORTAGE:
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