OCTARCHY is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. OCTARCHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTARCHY?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTARCHY is to know. It scores 18 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTARCHY
No single letter turns OCTARCHY into another word.
How OCTARCHY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OCTARCHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OCTARCHY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OCTARCHY mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
Government by eight rulers, or a state made up of eight governing regions.
Octarchy follows the pattern of monarchy and oligarchy, with the Greek number eight in place of one or few. The word octarchy is mostly a historical curiosity, tied to the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, and real governments of this exact shape are almost unknown.
How OCTARCHY is used
Used rarely, in political theory or history, for rule shared among eight people or units.
- The treaty set up an octarchy in which each of the eight princes held one vote.
- Historians doubted that an octarchy could ever agree on a single policy.
- In the novel, the island is ruled by an octarchy of rival families.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTARCHY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTARCHY
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Common questions about OCTARCHY
- Is OCTARCHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTARCHY, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTARCHY worth?
- OCTARCHY is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTARCHY mean?
- Government by eight rulers, or a state made up of eight governing regions.
- What letters can be added to OCTARCHY?
- No single letter can be added to OCTARCHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OCTARCHY:
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