OCTUPLEX is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. OCTUPLEX is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OCTUPLEX?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OCTUPLEX is to know. It scores 19 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OCTUPLEX
No single letter turns OCTUPLEX into another word.
How OCTUPLEX scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OCTUPLEX, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OCTUPLEX has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about OCTUPLEX
- All 8 letters of OCTUPLEX are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does OCTUPLEX mean in Scrabble?
adjective
raretechnical
Made up of eight parts, or eight times as many.
Octuplex belongs to the family of words like duplex and quadruplex. In telegraphy it described a system that sent eight messages at once along a single wire.
How OCTUPLEX is used
Rare; appears in older engineering texts and word lists.
- The company advertised an octuplex telegraph for busy lines.
- An octuplex arrangement splits the signal eight ways.
- The inventor patented an octuplex circuit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OCTUPLEX and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OCTUPLEX
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Common questions about OCTUPLEX
- Is OCTUPLEX valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OCTUPLEX, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OCTUPLEX worth?
- OCTUPLEX is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OCTUPLEX mean?
- Made up of eight parts, or eight times as many.
- What letters can be added to OCTUPLEX?
- No single letter can be added to OCTUPLEX to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OCTUPLEX:
Open OCTUPLEX in the Word Finder