OCTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. OCTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTAL?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
octalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OCTAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OCTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does OCTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to or expressed in a number system with a base of eight, using the digits 0 through 7.
Early computer systems favored octal notation because groups of three binary digits map neatly onto a single octal digit, making long strings of ones and zeros easier for a human to read. The system later lost ground to hexadecimal, though octal survives today mainly in specific corners of computing, such as the numbers used to set file permissions on Unix-like systems.
How OCTAL is used
A technical term used mainly in computing and mathematics when discussing number systems other than decimal.
- The programmer converted the binary value into octal notation.
- File permissions on the system are often written in octal form.
- An octal digit can range only from zero to seven.
- Early computers sometimes displayed memory addresses in octal.
- She explained the difference between octal and hexadecimal counting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OCTAL
1 longer words begin with OCTAL.
Words ending in OCTAL
1 words end in OCTAL. Useful as a back hook: play OCTAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with OCTAL inside
2 words contain OCTAL in the middle. Words that start with OCTAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTAL
Common questions about OCTAL
- Is OCTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTAL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTAL worth?
- OCTAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTAL mean?
- Relating to or expressed in a number system with a base of eight, using the digits 0 through 7.
- What letters can be added to OCTAL?
- OCTAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OCTAL:
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