OEDIPAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. OEDIPAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OEDIPAL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OEDIPAL is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OEDIPAL
No single letter turns OEDIPAL into another word.
How OEDIPAL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in OEDIPAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 64,331.
What does OEDIPAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Relating to or characterized by an Oedipus complex, in which a child feels desire toward one parent and rivalry with the other.
Oedipal belongs to psychoanalytic vocabulary and is tied to ideas about early family feelings. Outside clinical talk it is used loosely, often with a sense of exaggeration, to describe tangled feelings between a child and a parent.
How OEDIPAL is used
Used in psychology and criticism for feelings linked to the Oedipus complex.
- The critic read the play as an oedipal drama.
- Freud wrote about oedipal feelings in young boys.
- The film hints at an oedipal bond between mother and son.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OEDIPAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OEDIPAL
1 longer words begin with OEDIPAL.
Shorter words from the letters in OEDIPAL
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Common questions about OEDIPAL
- Is OEDIPAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OEDIPAL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OEDIPAL worth?
- OEDIPAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OEDIPAL mean?
- Relating to or characterized by an Oedipus complex, in which a child feels desire toward one parent and rivalry with the other.
- What letters can be added to OEDIPAL?
- No single letter can be added to OEDIPAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of OEDIPAL:
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