DETRIBALIZE is a valid Scrabble word — 23 points
Yes. DETRIBALIZE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 23 points in Scrabble and 25 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DETRIBALIZE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DETRIBALIZE is to know. It scores 23 from 11 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DETRIBALIZE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DETRIBALIZE scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in DETRIBALIZE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| z | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DETRIBALIZE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DETRIBALIZE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To strip a group of people of their tribal customs, loyalties and social structure.
Detribalize belongs to anthropology and colonial history, where it describes how migration, missions or new governments loosened old tribal ties. The word often carries a note of loss. People who have been detribalized may live in towns and follow different habits from their ancestors.
How DETRIBALIZE is used
Found in academic and historical writing about social change, often in the passive.
- Colonial schools set out to detribalize the children they taught.
- Rapid migration to the cities began to detribalize whole communities.
- Some scholars warn that policies meant to modernize can detribalize a people.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DETRIBALIZE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DETRIBALIZE
2 longer words begin with DETRIBALIZE.
Shorter words from the letters in DETRIBALIZE
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Common questions about DETRIBALIZE
- Is DETRIBALIZE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DETRIBALIZE, where it scores 25 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DETRIBALIZE worth?
- DETRIBALIZE is worth 23 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DETRIBALIZE mean?
- To strip a group of people of their tribal customs, loyalties and social structure.
- What letters can be added to DETRIBALIZE?
- DETRIBALIZE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of DETRIBALIZE:
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