IDEATIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. IDEATIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept IDEATIVE?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful IDEATIVE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for IDEATIVE
No single letter turns IDEATIVE into another word.
How IDEATIVE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in IDEATIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so IDEATIVE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does IDEATIVE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Concerned with the forming of ideas or mental images in the mind.
Ideative belongs to philosophy and psychology, where thinking is studied as a process. It points to the mind making ideas, not to the ideas once made. The variant ideational is much more common in modern writing.
How IDEATIVE is used
Ideative appears in technical or older writing about thought and mental imagery.
- The lecture described the ideative power of the mind at work.
- She studied the ideative stage that comes before any speech.
- An ideative faculty lets a child picture things not present.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of IDEATIVE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in IDEATIVE
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Common questions about IDEATIVE
- Is IDEATIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts IDEATIVE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is IDEATIVE worth?
- IDEATIVE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does IDEATIVE mean?
- Concerned with the forming of ideas or mental images in the mind.
- What letters can be added to IDEATIVE?
- No single letter can be added to IDEATIVE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of IDEATIVE:
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