OCTONARY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. OCTONARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTONARY?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTONARY is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTONARY
No single letter turns OCTONARY into another word.
How OCTONARY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OCTONARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OCTONARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OCTONARY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
formalrare
Made up of eight parts, or based on the number eight.
Octonary suits counting systems and groupings built around eight, much as decimal is built around ten. As a noun it can also name a stanza of eight lines.
How OCTONARY is used
Octonary is found in mathematics, poetry and technical description.
- The scribe devised an octonary system of counting.
- The poem ends with an octonary stanza.
- Computers sometimes group bits in an octonary pattern.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTONARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OCTONARY
The 8 tiles of OCTONARY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTONARY
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Common questions about OCTONARY
- Is OCTONARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTONARY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTONARY worth?
- OCTONARY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTONARY mean?
- Made up of eight parts, or based on the number eight.
- What letters can be added to OCTONARY?
- No single letter can be added to OCTONARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OCTONARY:
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