ELECT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. ELECT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ELECT?
| 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 ELECT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELECT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ELECT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ELECT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,765.
What does ELECT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To choose someone for a position or office by voting.
Citizens elect a president, a mayor, or a member of parliament by casting votes, and the candidate with enough support wins the office. The same word also works as an adjective placed after a noun, as in president elect, describing someone who has already won an election but has not yet formally taken office. In some religious writing, the elect refers to those believed to have been chosen for salvation, an older sense that survives mainly in theological contexts.
How ELECT is used
Common in politics and everyday civic life, and also used, in a more specialized way, in religious writing.
- Voters will elect a new mayor in the spring.
- The committee decided to elect its own chairperson.
- Members elect a new president of the club every year.
- The country will soon elect representatives to the assembly.
- The union asked its workers to elect a new spokesperson.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELECT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ELECT
Showing 24 of 302 words that begin with ELECT.
Words ending in ELECT
9 words end in ELECT. Useful as a back hook: play ELECT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ELECT inside
Showing 24 of 163 words that contain ELECT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ELECT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ELECT
Common questions about ELECT
- Is ELECT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ELECT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ELECT worth?
- ELECT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELECT mean?
- To choose someone for a position or office by voting.
- What letters can be added to ELECT?
- ELECT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ELECT:
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