FIGURATE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FIGURATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FIGURATE?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIGURATE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIGURATE
No single letter turns FIGURATE into another word.
How FIGURATE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FIGURATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FIGURATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about FIGURATE
- All 8 letters of FIGURATE are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FIGURATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
raretechnical
Having a definite shape or form, or expressed through figures of speech.
Figurate is a learned word that turns up in older writing and in music, where it describes florid, decorated melodic lines. Mathematicians also meet it in the phrase figurate numbers, which can be arranged as dots in regular shapes.
How FIGURATE is used
Rare and technical, mostly in music theory, mathematics or old rhetorical writing.
- The choir sang a figurate setting full of running notes.
- Triangular numbers are a classic kind of figurate number.
- The essay's figurate language made the argument hard to follow.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIGURATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FIGURATE
The 8 tiles of FIGURATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FIGURATE
1 longer words begin with FIGURATE.
Shorter words from the letters in FIGURATE
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Common questions about FIGURATE
- Is FIGURATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIGURATE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIGURATE worth?
- FIGURATE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIGURATE mean?
- Having a definite shape or form, or expressed through figures of speech.
- What letters can be added to FIGURATE?
- No single letter can be added to FIGURATE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FIGURATE:
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