JARTA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. JARTA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JARTA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JARTA is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JARTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jartasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JARTA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JARTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does JARTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
Heart, used as a term of endearment in the Shetland Islands.
Speakers in Shetland use jarta the way other English speakers use dear or love, addressing someone close to them by naming the heart rather than a pet name built on it. The word also appears as yarta and yarto in older glossaries of the islands, spelling variants of the same local pronunciation. It survives mainly in local speech and in collections of Shetland dialect rather than in general English writing.
How JARTA is used
Regional; used as an affectionate form of address in Shetland dialect, not as the ordinary word for the organ.
- Come away in, my jarta, and warm yourself.
- She called the bairn her wee jarta.
- Old islanders still greet a friend as jarta.
- The word jarta shows up in collections of Shetland speech.
- He wrote jarta where a mainland writer would put dear.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JARTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JARTA
1 longer words begin with JARTA.
Shorter words from the letters in JARTA
Common questions about JARTA
- Is JARTA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JARTA is not in it.
- How many points is JARTA worth?
- JARTA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JARTA mean?
- Heart, used as a term of endearment in the Shetland Islands.
- What letters can be added to JARTA?
- JARTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JARTA:
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