CONSONANTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CONSONANTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CONSONANTAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CONSONANTAL is to know. It scores 13 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CONSONANTAL
No single letter turns CONSONANTAL into another word.
How CONSONANTAL scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in CONSONANTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 3 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CONSONANTAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CONSONANTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Of, like or made up of consonant sounds or letters.
Linguists call a sound consonantal when the breath is obstructed in speech. Some writing systems, such as Hebrew and Arabic, are described as consonantal because they mark mostly consonants.
How CONSONANTAL is used
A linguistics term for sounds, letters and scripts.
- Hebrew was long written in a purely consonantal script.
- The word ends in a consonantal cluster.
- The linguist noted a consonantal shift in the dialect.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CONSONANTAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CONSONANTAL
1 longer words begin with CONSONANTAL.
Shorter words from the letters in CONSONANTAL
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Common questions about CONSONANTAL
- Is CONSONANTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CONSONANTAL, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CONSONANTAL worth?
- CONSONANTAL is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CONSONANTAL mean?
- Of, like or made up of consonant sounds or letters.
- What letters can be added to CONSONANTAL?
- No single letter can be added to CONSONANTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of CONSONANTAL:
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