COLUMBARIUM is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. COLUMBARIUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 26 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLUMBARIUM?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLUMBARIUM is to know. It scores 19 from 11 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLUMBARIUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
columbariumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COLUMBARIUM scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in COLUMBARIUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COLUMBARIUM has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COLUMBARIUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
A building or wall lined with small niches for urns holding the ashes of the cremated dead, or, in older usage, a dovecote.
Families visit a columbarium to remember someone whose ashes rest in one of its numbered niches. The word goes back to a Latin term for a pigeon house, which the rows of little openings resemble. Players like it because it packs several awkward letters into one long, valid word.
How COLUMBARIUM is used
Used mainly in funeral and cemetery contexts, and occasionally for a pigeon loft.
- Her ashes were placed in a niche of the columbarium beside the chapel.
- The new columbarium has room for several hundred urns along its curved wall.
- Visitors left flowers at the glass front of the columbarium.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLUMBARIUM and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLUMBARIUM
1 longer words begin with COLUMBARIUM.
Shorter words from the letters in COLUMBARIUM
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Common questions about COLUMBARIUM
- Is COLUMBARIUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLUMBARIUM, where it scores 26 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLUMBARIUM worth?
- COLUMBARIUM is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLUMBARIUM mean?
- A building or wall lined with small niches for urns holding the ashes of the cremated dead, or, in older usage, a dovecote.
- What letters can be added to COLUMBARIUM?
- COLUMBARIUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of COLUMBARIUM:
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