ELATIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ELATIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ELATIVE?
| 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: 58 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELATIVE is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELATIVE
Front hooks — 1
relativeBack hooks — 1
elativesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ELATIVE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in ELATIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 62,381.
What stands out about ELATIVE
- ELATIVE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ELATIVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A grammatical case in languages such as Finnish and Estonian that shows movement out of something.
The elative answers the question out of where, and in Finnish it is formed with the ending -sta. In Arabic grammar, the same word names a form of adjective expressing the highest degree.
How ELATIVE is used
The word elative is a linguistic term used for case systems and adjective forms.
- Finnish marks leaving a house with the elative.
- The elative is one of the locative cases.
- Students of Estonian learn the elative early.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELATIVE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ELATIVE
1 longer words begin with ELATIVE.
Shorter words from the letters in ELATIVE
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Common questions about ELATIVE
- Is ELATIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ELATIVE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ELATIVE worth?
- ELATIVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELATIVE mean?
- A grammatical case in languages such as Finnish and Estonian that shows movement out of something.
- What letters can be added to ELATIVE?
- ELATIVE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of ELATIVE:
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