NOTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. NOTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOTAL?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOTAL is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOTAL
No single letter turns NOTAL into another word.
How NOTAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NOTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What stands out about NOTAL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NOTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoology
Relating to the back, or to the notum, the hardened upper plate covering an insect's thoracic segment.
Entomologists use notal to describe plates, bristles, or ridges found on the notum, the hardened upper surface of an insect's thorax that shields the muscles working the wings and legs. A notal groove, for example, marks a line across this plate that helps tell one insect family from another. The term extends by the same logic to the dorsal surface of other segmented creatures, always pointing to the back rather than the underside. It sits alongside sternal, which names the same kind of feature on the belly side.
How NOTAL is used
A specialist term confined to entomology and comparative anatomy, rarely met outside scientific description of insects.
- The beetle's notal plate was etched with fine ridges.
- A notal groove divides the thorax into two visible sections.
- Researchers compared the notal bristles of the two wasp species.
- The notal surface hardens as the insect matures.
- Its notal shield protects the flight muscles beneath.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOTAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NOTAL
The 5 tiles of NOTAL in a different order — 3 found.
Words ending in NOTAL
1 words end in NOTAL. Useful as a back hook: play NOTAL onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in NOTAL
Common questions about NOTAL
- Is NOTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOTAL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOTAL worth?
- NOTAL is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOTAL mean?
- Relating to the back, or to the notum, the hardened upper plate covering an insect's thoracic segment.
- What letters can be added to NOTAL?
- No single letter can be added to NOTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NOTAL:
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