MELIORIST is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. MELIORIST 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 MELIORIST?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MELIORIST is to know. It scores 11 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MELIORIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
melioristsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MELIORIST scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in MELIORIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MELIORIST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MELIORIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
A person who believes that the world can be improved by human effort.
A meliorist holds that things tend to get better and that people can help the process. The view sits between naive optimism and pessimism, and it appears in philosophy and political thought.
How MELIORIST is used
Meliorist is a term of philosophy and social thought.
- As a meliorist, she trusted that steady reform would work.
- The meliorist argued that education could end poverty.
- He called himself a meliorist, not a dreamer.
- A true meliorist keeps working despite setbacks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MELIORIST and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MELIORIST
2 longer words begin with MELIORIST.
Shorter words from the letters in MELIORIST
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Common questions about MELIORIST
- Is MELIORIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MELIORIST, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MELIORIST worth?
- MELIORIST is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MELIORIST mean?
- A person who believes that the world can be improved by human effort.
- What letters can be added to MELIORIST?
- MELIORIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of MELIORIST:
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