ESOTERICA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ESOTERICA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ESOTERICA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ESOTERICA is to know. It scores 11 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ESOTERICA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
esotericasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ESOTERICA scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ESOTERICA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ESOTERICA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ESOTERICA mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
Matters of highly specialised or obscure knowledge, understood by only a small circle of insiders.
Collectors and scholars reach for esoterica when a pile of material is too niche for the general reader. The word works as a plural, so a shelf of esoterica means many odd items rather than one.
How ESOTERICA is used
Used in writing about books, lore and hobbies that only a few devotees know well, as in a catalogue of esoterica.
- The second-hand shop kept its esoterica in a back room behind the maps.
- He collected esoterica about medieval beekeeping.
- The lecture drifted into esoterica that lost most of the audience.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ESOTERICA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ESOTERICA
2 longer words begin with ESOTERICA.
Shorter words from the letters in ESOTERICA
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Common questions about ESOTERICA
- Is ESOTERICA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ESOTERICA, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ESOTERICA worth?
- ESOTERICA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ESOTERICA mean?
- Matters of highly specialised or obscure knowledge, understood by only a small circle of insiders.
- What letters can be added to ESOTERICA?
- ESOTERICA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ESOTERICA:
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