EPHORAL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. EPHORAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept EPHORAL?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful EPHORAL is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for EPHORAL
No single letter turns EPHORAL into another word.
How EPHORAL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in EPHORAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 192,992.
What does EPHORAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
historical
Relating to an ephor, one of the elected magistrates of ancient Sparta.
The adjective belongs to writing about Greek history and political theory. Ephoral authority meant oversight of the kings in Sparta, so it comes up when authors compare checks on power.
How EPHORAL is used
Found in historical and scholarly texts about Sparta and similar offices.
- The ephoral board watched over the Spartan kings.
- Historians debate how far ephoral power reached.
- He wrote about the ephoral system of Sparta.
- An ephoral decree could not be ignored.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of EPHORAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with EPHORAL
2 longer words begin with EPHORAL.
Shorter words from the letters in EPHORAL
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Common questions about EPHORAL
- Is EPHORAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts EPHORAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is EPHORAL worth?
- EPHORAL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does EPHORAL mean?
- Relating to an ephor, one of the elected magistrates of ancient Sparta.
- What letters can be added to EPHORAL?
- No single letter can be added to EPHORAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of EPHORAL:
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