DATELESS is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DATELESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DATELESS?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DATELESS is to know. It scores 9 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DATELESS
No single letter turns DATELESS into another word.
How DATELESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DATELESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DATELESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DATELESS
- The same 8 tiles also spell 2 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 DATELESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having no date, or timeless and not tied to any period.
A dateless letter gives no clue when it was written, which frustrates archivists. In a more poetic sense, dateless means so old or so lasting that it escapes dating at all.
How DATELESS is used
Dateless fits documents with no date and style that never ages.
- The dateless letter was hard to place in the archive.
- The dateless beauty of the old cathedral moved her.
- He chose a dateless black coat that never seemed out of fashion.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DATELESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DATELESS
The 8 tiles of DATELESS in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in DATELESS
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Common questions about DATELESS
- Is DATELESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DATELESS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DATELESS worth?
- DATELESS is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DATELESS mean?
- Having no date, or timeless and not tied to any period.
- What letters can be added to DATELESS?
- No single letter can be added to DATELESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DATELESS:
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