OPAQUENESS is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. OPAQUENESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OPAQUENESS?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPAQUENESS is to know. It scores 21 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPAQUENESS
No single letter turns OPAQUENESS into another word.
How OPAQUENESS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in OPAQUENESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OPAQUENESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OPAQUENESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The quality of letting no light through, or of being hard to understand or see into.
Glass can be judged by its opaqueness, but so can a contract or a government. The figurative sense is common in complaints about officials who give no clear answers.
How OPAQUENESS is used
Opaqueness can describe a physical material or a confusing, secretive process.
- The opaqueness of the frosted window gave the room privacy.
- Critics attacked the opaqueness of the budget process.
- Paint was added to increase the opaqueness of the film.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPAQUENESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPAQUENESS
1 longer words begin with OPAQUENESS.
Shorter words from the letters in OPAQUENESS
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Common questions about OPAQUENESS
- Is OPAQUENESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPAQUENESS, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPAQUENESS worth?
- OPAQUENESS is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPAQUENESS mean?
- The quality of letting no light through, or of being hard to understand or see into.
- What letters can be added to OPAQUENESS?
- No single letter can be added to OPAQUENESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of OPAQUENESS:
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