ELEGIACAL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ELEGIACAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ELEGIACAL?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ELEGIACAL is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ELEGIACAL
No single letter turns ELEGIACAL into another word.
How ELEGIACAL scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ELEGIACAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ELEGIACAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ELEGIACAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Sad and mournful in tone, like an elegy, or written in the form of an elegy.
An elegiacal poem or piece of music looks back with sorrow on something lost. Elegiacal is a less common variant of elegiac and has the same literary flavour.
How ELEGIACAL is used
Literary; used for poems, music and moods of mourning.
- The poem has an elegiacal tone from start to finish.
- An elegiacal mood settled over the old harbour.
- The composer wrote an elegiacal slow movement.
- Her elegiacal letters mourned the lost village.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ELEGIACAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ELEGIACAL
1 longer words begin with ELEGIACAL.
Shorter words from the letters in ELEGIACAL
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Common questions about ELEGIACAL
- Is ELEGIACAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ELEGIACAL, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ELEGIACAL worth?
- ELEGIACAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ELEGIACAL mean?
- Sad and mournful in tone, like an elegy, or written in the form of an elegy.
- What letters can be added to ELEGIACAL?
- No single letter can be added to ELEGIACAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ELEGIACAL:
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