OCTAHEDRAL is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. OCTAHEDRAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTAHEDRAL?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTAHEDRAL is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTAHEDRAL
No single letter turns OCTAHEDRAL into another word.
How OCTAHEDRAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in OCTAHEDRAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OCTAHEDRAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OCTAHEDRAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Having eight faces, or shaped like an octahedron.
Octahedral shapes turn up in mineral crystals such as diamond and fluorite, and in chemistry for molecules whose atoms sit at the corners of an octahedron. The word is a shape description rather than a size.
How OCTAHEDRAL is used
Used in geometry, mineralogy and chemistry, as in an octahedral crystal or octahedral geometry.
- Fluorite often forms octahedral crystals.
- The molecule has an octahedral geometry around the central atom.
- He cut the glass into an octahedral shape.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTAHEDRAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OCTAHEDRAL
1 longer words begin with OCTAHEDRAL.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTAHEDRAL
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Common questions about OCTAHEDRAL
- Is OCTAHEDRAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTAHEDRAL, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTAHEDRAL worth?
- OCTAHEDRAL is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTAHEDRAL mean?
- Having eight faces, or shaped like an octahedron.
- What letters can be added to OCTAHEDRAL?
- No single letter can be added to OCTAHEDRAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of OCTAHEDRAL:
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