HARTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HARTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HARTAL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HARTAL is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HARTAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
hartalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HARTAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in HARTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does HARTAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
A strike in South Asia in which shops and offices close as a protest or a sign of mourning.
Hartal comes from Gujarati and Hindi and gained wide fame when Mahatma Gandhi used it as a form of peaceful protest against British rule. A hartal is usually called by a party or a community, and whole towns can fall quiet for a day. Unlike an ordinary workplace strike, it asks shopkeepers, traders and transport workers to stop at once.
How HARTAL is used
Common in South Asian news; it is also used when a day of mourning is observed.
- The party called a hartal across the whole state.
- Shops stayed shut during the one-day hartal.
- Buses stopped running because of the hartal.
- Gandhi urged the people to observe a hartal in protest.
- The hartal ended quietly when the talks began.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HARTAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HARTAL
1 longer words begin with HARTAL.
Shorter words from the letters in HARTAL
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Common questions about HARTAL
- Is HARTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HARTAL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HARTAL worth?
- HARTAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HARTAL mean?
- A strike in South Asia in which shops and offices close as a protest or a sign of mourning.
- What letters can be added to HARTAL?
- HARTAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of HARTAL:
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