MOTTLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. MOTTLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MOTTLE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MOTTLE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MOTTLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How MOTTLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MOTTLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 103,477.
What does MOTTLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To mark a surface with spots, streaks, or blotches of a different color or shade.
To mottle something is to break up its color with irregular spots or streaks rather than leave it a single even shade. The word describes what dappled light does to a forest floor, what disease can do to a leaf, and what a printer sometimes does on purpose to imitate marble or tortoiseshell. Painters, dyers, and naturalists all use mottle for the same visual effect, patches of contrasting color scattered across a surface. The related adjective, mottled, describes the finished pattern rather than the act of making it.
How MOTTLE is used
Used both as a verb for the act of marking something with patches of color and, more often, in its adjective form mottled to describe skin, animal coats, leaves, or surfaces.
- Sunlight through the leaves seemed to mottle the path with shifting light and shadow.
- Disease had begun to mottle the lower leaves with brown spots.
- The craftsman used a sponge to mottle the wet paint before it dried.
- Age had started to mottle the backs of her hands.
- A skilled printer can mottle paper to imitate the look of old marble.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MOTTLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with MOTTLE
4 longer words begin with MOTTLE.
Shorter words from the letters in MOTTLE
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Common questions about MOTTLE
- Is MOTTLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MOTTLE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MOTTLE worth?
- MOTTLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MOTTLE mean?
- To mark a surface with spots, streaks, or blotches of a different color or shade.
- What letters can be added to MOTTLE?
- MOTTLE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MOTTLE:
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