FUTURIST is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FUTURIST 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 FUTURIST?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUTURIST is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUTURIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
futuristsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FUTURIST scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in FUTURIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so FUTURIST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does FUTURIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who studies likely developments in society and technology, or who belongs to the Futurist art movement.
In business, a futurist is hired to spot trends and warn about what may come, whereas in art history Futurists were Italian painters and poets who admired speed and machines. In theology the term describes someone who expects prophecies to be fulfilled later.
How FUTURIST is used
Futurist is capitalised when it refers to the early twentieth-century art movement.
- The company asked a futurist to predict the next decade of travel.
- A futurist in the 1910s might have painted a speeding train.
- The conference opened with a talk by a noted futurist.
- He called himself a futurist because he loved new gadgets.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUTURIST and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FUTURIST
4 longer words begin with FUTURIST.
Shorter words from the letters in FUTURIST
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Common questions about FUTURIST
- Is FUTURIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUTURIST, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUTURIST worth?
- FUTURIST is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUTURIST mean?
- A person who studies likely developments in society and technology, or who belongs to the Futurist art movement.
- What letters can be added to FUTURIST?
- FUTURIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of FUTURIST:
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