OMERTA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OMERTA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OMERTA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OMERTA is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OMERTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
omertasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OMERTA scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OMERTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,162.
What does OMERTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A strict code of silence that forbids cooperating with authorities or revealing the secrets of a criminal organization, especially the Mafia.
Breaking omerta traditionally meant risking violent punishment, since the code exists precisely to keep victims and members from telling police anything about a crime they witnessed or took part in. The term entered English from Sicilian, tied closely to the history of organized crime in southern Italy and later in Italian-American communities. Journalists have since borrowed the word loosely for any group's unwritten rule of not speaking to outsiders about internal wrongdoing.
How OMERTA is used
Used in reporting on organized crime and, more loosely, as a figure of speech for any tight-lipped group culture.
- Investigators struggled against a wall of omerta in the neighborhood.
- No witness would break omerta, even under threat of prosecution.
- The old don enforced omerta with brutal consequences for informers.
- Critics accused the department of its own version of omerta toward misconduct.
- Decades of omerta kept the family's crimes out of the official record.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OMERTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OMERTA
The 6 tiles of OMERTA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OMERTA
1 longer words begin with OMERTA.
Shorter words from the letters in OMERTA
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Common questions about OMERTA
- Is OMERTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OMERTA, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OMERTA worth?
- OMERTA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OMERTA mean?
- A strict code of silence that forbids cooperating with authorities or revealing the secrets of a criminal organization, especially the Mafia.
- What letters can be added to OMERTA?
- OMERTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OMERTA:
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