MERETRICIOUS is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. MERETRICIOUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MERETRICIOUS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MERETRICIOUS is to know. It scores 16 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MERETRICIOUS
No single letter turns MERETRICIOUS into another word.
How MERETRICIOUS scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in MERETRICIOUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MERETRICIOUS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about MERETRICIOUS
- MERETRICIOUS runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MERETRICIOUS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Attractive on the surface but cheap, showy and lacking real worth.
Meretricious is a critic's word for glitter that hides emptiness: a flashy film, a gaudy ornament, a polished speech with nothing behind it. Calling something meretricious says it is designed to impress rather than to last.
How MERETRICIOUS is used
Literary and critical; used about art, style and arguments.
- The film was a meretricious spectacle with no story.
- Critics dismissed the novel as meretricious.
- A meretricious display of wealth fooled nobody.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MERETRICIOUS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MERETRICIOUS
2 longer words begin with MERETRICIOUS.
Shorter words from the letters in MERETRICIOUS
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Common questions about MERETRICIOUS
- Is MERETRICIOUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MERETRICIOUS, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MERETRICIOUS worth?
- MERETRICIOUS is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MERETRICIOUS mean?
- Attractive on the surface but cheap, showy and lacking real worth.
- What letters can be added to MERETRICIOUS?
- No single letter can be added to MERETRICIOUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of MERETRICIOUS:
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