MISTRANSLATE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. MISTRANSLATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MISTRANSLATE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MISTRANSLATE is to know. It scores 14 from 12 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MISTRANSLATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MISTRANSLATE scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in MISTRANSLATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MISTRANSLATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does MISTRANSLATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To render words from one language into another wrongly, so that the meaning is changed.
A translator can mistranslate a single idiom or an entire contract clause, and the result is often confusion rather than nonsense. Machines mistranslate most when a phrase has more than one possible sense.
How MISTRANSLATE is used
Used for errors in translation of speech, books, signs, legal papers and software text.
- The interpreter was afraid he would mistranslate the minister's joke.
- Software can easily mistranslate a pun.
- They mistranslated the label and sold the product with a false warning.
- It is easy to mistranslate a word that has no direct equivalent.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MISTRANSLATE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MISTRANSLATE
2 longer words begin with MISTRANSLATE.
Shorter words from the letters in MISTRANSLATE
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Common questions about MISTRANSLATE
- Is MISTRANSLATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MISTRANSLATE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MISTRANSLATE worth?
- MISTRANSLATE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MISTRANSLATE mean?
- To render words from one language into another wrongly, so that the meaning is changed.
- What letters can be added to MISTRANSLATE?
- MISTRANSLATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of MISTRANSLATE:
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