DOLOROSO is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DOLOROSO 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 DOLOROSO?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOLOROSO is to know. It scores 9 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOLOROSO
No single letter turns DOLOROSO into another word.
How DOLOROSO scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DOLOROSO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 4 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DOLOROSO has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DOLOROSO
- The letter O appears four times in DOLOROSO.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DOLOROSO mean in Scrabble?
adverb
music
In a sad, mournful way; a direction for how music should be played.
Composers write doloroso above a passage to ask performers for a sorrowful tone. It comes straight from Italian and appears in scores rather than in speech. As an adjective doloroso describes music with that mournful quality.
How DOLOROSO is used
Musical direction; seen as a marking, for example "doloroso" in a score.
- The violin line is marked doloroso.
- She played the slow movement doloroso, with a heavy touch.
- The score asks for the theme to return doloroso.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOLOROSO and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOLOROSO
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Common questions about DOLOROSO
- Is DOLOROSO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOLOROSO, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOLOROSO worth?
- DOLOROSO is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOLOROSO mean?
- In a sad, mournful way; a direction for how music should be played.
- What letters can be added to DOLOROSO?
- No single letter can be added to DOLOROSO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DOLOROSO:
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