CONTRAPUNTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. CONTRAPUNTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CONTRAPUNTAL?
| 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 CONTRAPUNTAL is to know. It scores 16 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CONTRAPUNTAL
No single letter turns CONTRAPUNTAL into another word.
How CONTRAPUNTAL scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in CONTRAPUNTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CONTRAPUNTAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CONTRAPUNTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
music
Made up of two or more independent melodies played together in harmony.
Contrapuntal music, like a Bach fugue, lets each voice keep its own line while the whole still fits. The word is also borrowed for stories whose separate plots weave around one another.
How CONTRAPUNTAL is used
Contrapuntal is used in music theory, criticism and in figurative descriptions of layered works.
- The choir sang a rich contrapuntal passage.
- Bach is the master of contrapuntal writing.
- The novel has a contrapuntal structure with two interleaved stories.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CONTRAPUNTAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CONTRAPUNTAL
2 longer words begin with CONTRAPUNTAL.
Shorter words from the letters in CONTRAPUNTAL
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Common questions about CONTRAPUNTAL
- Is CONTRAPUNTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CONTRAPUNTAL, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CONTRAPUNTAL worth?
- CONTRAPUNTAL is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CONTRAPUNTAL mean?
- Made up of two or more independent melodies played together in harmony.
- What letters can be added to CONTRAPUNTAL?
- No single letter can be added to CONTRAPUNTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of CONTRAPUNTAL:
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