CRIMINATE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CRIMINATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRIMINATE?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRIMINATE is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRIMINATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CRIMINATE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CRIMINATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CRIMINATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about CRIMINATE
- The same 9 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CRIMINATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
rareformal
To accuse someone of a crime, or to show that someone is guilty of one.
To criminate is to charge or implicate a person, and it is the plainer sibling of "incriminate". The sense of condemning an action as criminal is now very rare. Most speakers today reach for incriminate instead of criminate.
How CRIMINATE is used
Criminate is old-fashioned and rare, mostly appearing in legal or historical writing.
- The evidence would criminate the clerk.
- He refused to say anything that might criminate his friend.
- Critics tried to criminate the whole policy as a fraud.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRIMINATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRIMINATE
The 9 tiles of CRIMINATE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with CRIMINATE
2 longer words begin with CRIMINATE.
Shorter words from the letters in CRIMINATE
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Common questions about CRIMINATE
- Is CRIMINATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRIMINATE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRIMINATE worth?
- CRIMINATE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRIMINATE mean?
- To accuse someone of a crime, or to show that someone is guilty of one.
- What letters can be added to CRIMINATE?
- CRIMINATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CRIMINATE:
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