NONLITERAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. NONLITERAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NONLITERAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NONLITERAL is to know. It scores 10 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NONLITERAL
No single letter turns NONLITERAL into another word.
How NONLITERAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in NONLITERAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NONLITERAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NONLITERAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Not meant in the usual, basic sense of the words; figurative.
Saying that someone is drowning in paperwork is a nonliteral claim: nobody is actually in water. Children and some computer programs often find nonliteral speech hard to understand.
How NONLITERAL is used
Nonliteral is used in linguistics, psychology and everyday talk about metaphors and idioms.
- Idioms such as "kick the bucket" are nonliteral expressions.
- The poem relies on nonliteral imagery rather than plain statement.
- He took a nonliteral reading of the rule and ignored its wording.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NONLITERAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NONLITERAL
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Common questions about NONLITERAL
- Is NONLITERAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NONLITERAL, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NONLITERAL worth?
- NONLITERAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NONLITERAL mean?
- Not meant in the usual, basic sense of the words; figurative.
- What letters can be added to NONLITERAL?
- No single letter can be added to NONLITERAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of NONLITERAL:
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