ILLUMINATE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ILLUMINATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ILLUMINATE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ILLUMINATE is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ILLUMINATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ILLUMINATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in ILLUMINATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ILLUMINATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ILLUMINATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To light something up, or to make a subject clearer and easier to understand.
The verb works in two worlds: a floodlight can illuminate a stadium, and a good teacher can illuminate a hard idea. It has a third, older sense in book-making, where scribes decorated manuscript pages with gold and bright colours.
How ILLUMINATE is used
Used for physical lighting, for clarifying ideas, and for decorating medieval manuscripts.
- Fireworks illuminate the harbour on the last night of the festival.
- The study helps illuminate why so many small shops are closing.
- Monks would illuminate the first letter of each page with gold leaf.
- A single lantern was enough to illuminate the narrow cellar.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ILLUMINATE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ILLUMINATE
2 longer words begin with ILLUMINATE.
Shorter words from the letters in ILLUMINATE
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Common questions about ILLUMINATE
- Is ILLUMINATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ILLUMINATE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ILLUMINATE worth?
- ILLUMINATE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ILLUMINATE mean?
- To light something up, or to make a subject clearer and easier to understand.
- What letters can be added to ILLUMINATE?
- ILLUMINATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of ILLUMINATE:
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