GONGORISTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. GONGORISTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GONGORISTIC?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GONGORISTIC is to know. It scores 15 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GONGORISTIC
No single letter turns GONGORISTIC into another word.
How GONGORISTIC scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in GONGORISTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GONGORISTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does GONGORISTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Written in the florid, twisting, heavily ornamented manner associated with the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora.
Critics call a style gongoristic when its word order is inverted and its imagery piled up until the sense is hard to follow. The term is a literary label, usually half admiring and half mocking.
How GONGORISTIC is used
Found in literary criticism, especially on Spanish Baroque poetry and its imitators.
- The poem was so gongoristic that readers needed notes for every stanza.
- He adopted a gongoristic manner, full of classical allusions.
- Her gongoristic prose made the simple plot nearly invisible.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GONGORISTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GONGORISTIC
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Common questions about GONGORISTIC
- Is GONGORISTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GONGORISTIC, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GONGORISTIC worth?
- GONGORISTIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GONGORISTIC mean?
- Written in the florid, twisting, heavily ornamented manner associated with the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora.
- What letters can be added to GONGORISTIC?
- No single letter can be added to GONGORISTIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of GONGORISTIC:
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