ESCALADE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ESCALADE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ESCALADE?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ESCALADE is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ESCALADE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ESCALADE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ESCALADE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ESCALADE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ESCALADE
- ESCALADE 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 ESCALADE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An attack on a fortified place in which soldiers climb the walls with ladders.
The escalade was a classic siege method before cannon made castle walls easy to breach. Defenders tried to push the ladders away or pour hot liquids on the climbers. The word comes from French and Italian words for a ladder.
How ESCALADE is used
Used in military history for scaling walls by ladder, and sometimes as a verb meaning to scale them.
- The army planned an escalade at dawn, when the guards were weary.
- Ladders were the key to every medieval escalade.
- The defenders beat back the escalade with stones and boiling oil.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ESCALADE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ESCALADE
4 longer words begin with ESCALADE.
Shorter words from the letters in ESCALADE
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Common questions about ESCALADE
- Is ESCALADE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ESCALADE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ESCALADE worth?
- ESCALADE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ESCALADE mean?
- An attack on a fortified place in which soldiers climb the walls with ladders.
- What letters can be added to ESCALADE?
- ESCALADE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ESCALADE:
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