OCTANGLES is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. OCTANGLES is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTANGLES?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTANGLES is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTANGLES
No single letter turns OCTANGLES into another word.
How OCTANGLES scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in OCTANGLES, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OCTANGLES has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about OCTANGLES
- All 9 letters of OCTANGLES are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does OCTANGLES mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
Figures with eight angles, in the plural.
Octangle is the older English name for what geometry now calls by its Greek one, and it lost that competition completely: textbooks use the other word and octangles survives in lists of accepted spellings. The two are exact synonyms, which is unusual — most pairs of this kind drift apart in meaning instead.
How OCTANGLES is used
Plural of octangle. Archaic; the ordinary term is octagon.
- The plan is built from two octangles set at an angle.
- Older texts write octangles where a modern one would not.
- He drew three octangles and labelled every corner.
- Octangles and octagons are the same figure under two names.
- The word octangles belongs to eighteenth-century mathematics.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTANGLES and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTANGLES
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Common questions about OCTANGLES
- Is OCTANGLES valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTANGLES, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTANGLES worth?
- OCTANGLES is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTANGLES mean?
- Figures with eight angles, in the plural.
- What letters can be added to OCTANGLES?
- No single letter can be added to OCTANGLES to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of OCTANGLES:
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