CURTATE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. CURTATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CURTATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURTATE is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CURTATE
No single letter turns CURTATE into another word.
How CURTATE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CURTATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 205,859.
What does CURTATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Shortened or reduced, especially of a distance measured in a particular plane.
Astronomers once used curtate for a planet's distance projected onto the plane of the ecliptic instead of measured straight. In geometry the term appears for shapes with a reduced length. It is a specialist word that ordinary writers almost never need.
How CURTATE is used
Confined to older astronomy and mathematics texts.
- The textbook defined the curtate distance of the planet from the sun.
- A curtate cycloid has a loop-free, shortened path.
- He wrote down the curtate value and compared it with the full one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURTATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CURTATE
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Common questions about CURTATE
- Is CURTATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CURTATE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CURTATE worth?
- CURTATE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURTATE mean?
- Shortened or reduced, especially of a distance measured in a particular plane.
- What letters can be added to CURTATE?
- No single letter can be added to CURTATE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CURTATE:
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