MASTODON is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. MASTODON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MASTODON?
| 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 MASTODON is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MASTODON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MASTODON scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MASTODON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MASTODON has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MASTODON mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large extinct elephant-like mammal with low-crowned molars and long tusks.
Mastodons roamed Miocene to Pleistocene forests and are known from bones found across North America. They differ from mammoths in tooth shape and generally lower, longer bodies. In casual speech a mastodon can mean anything huge and old-fashioned.
How MASTODON is used
Mastodon appears in palaeontology and in figurative talk about something enormous.
- A mastodon skeleton stands in the museum hall.
- Hunters in ancient times may have chased the mastodon.
- The old mainframe was a mastodon among modern machines.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MASTODON and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MASTODON
5 longer words begin with MASTODON.
Shorter words from the letters in MASTODON
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Common questions about MASTODON
- Is MASTODON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MASTODON, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MASTODON worth?
- MASTODON is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MASTODON mean?
- A large extinct elephant-like mammal with low-crowned molars and long tusks.
- What letters can be added to MASTODON?
- MASTODON takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MASTODON:
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