DOTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DOTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOTAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOTAL is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOTAL
No single letter turns DOTAL into another word.
How DOTAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does DOTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legal
Dotal means relating to or consisting of a dowry, the property or money a bride's family gives at marriage.
The word dotal comes from the Latin dos, dotis, meaning dowry, the same root that gives English dowry and endow. It appears mainly in legal and historical writing about property a wife brought into a marriage, sometimes called dotal property or a dotal fund. In several older legal systems the dotal estate stayed under the wife's own name even after marriage, unlike her other assets, which normally passed to her husband's control. Modern English rarely needs the word outside legal history and translations of older texts.
How DOTAL is used
Rare and mostly legal; found in older law texts and in discussions of dowry customs.
- The contract listed the dotal property brought by the bride.
- Roman law protected a wife's dotal fund from her husband's creditors.
- Historians studied dotal customs across medieval Europe.
- The estate remained dotal until the marriage ended.
- Lawyers rarely use the term dotal in modern contracts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOTAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in DOTAL
4 words end in DOTAL. Useful as a back hook: play DOTAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOTAL inside
19 words contain DOTAL in the middle. Words that start with DOTAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOTAL
Common questions about DOTAL
- Is DOTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOTAL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOTAL worth?
- DOTAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOTAL mean?
- Dotal means relating to or consisting of a dowry, the property or money a bride's family gives at marriage.
- What letters can be added to DOTAL?
- No single letter can be added to DOTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOTAL:
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