FELSTONE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FELSTONE 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 FELSTONE?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FELSTONE is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FELSTONE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
felstonesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FELSTONE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FELSTONE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FELSTONE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FELSTONE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A pale, fine-grained igneous rock of the felsite kind, formed from cooled volcanic material.
Geologists reach for felstone when they want an older, field-style name for a dense, light-coloured volcanic rock. Modern writing usually prefers felsite, so felstone now turns up mostly in historical texts and word lists.
How FELSTONE is used
The word felstone appears in older geology writing and in specialist vocabulary lists.
- The hillside was capped with a pinkish felstone that resisted weathering far better than the soil around it.
- A nineteenth-century survey described a dyke of felstone cutting through the older slate.
- She picked up a chip of felstone and noticed its smooth, almost glassy fracture.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FELSTONE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FELSTONE
1 longer words begin with FELSTONE.
Shorter words from the letters in FELSTONE
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Common questions about FELSTONE
- Is FELSTONE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FELSTONE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FELSTONE worth?
- FELSTONE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FELSTONE mean?
- A pale, fine-grained igneous rock of the felsite kind, formed from cooled volcanic material.
- What letters can be added to FELSTONE?
- FELSTONE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FELSTONE:
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