OPEROSE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. OPEROSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OPEROSE?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPEROSE is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPEROSE
No single letter turns OPEROSE into another word.
How OPEROSE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in OPEROSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 2 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 180,460.
What does OPEROSE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
formalrare
Requiring a great deal of hard work, or marked by painstaking effort.
The word operose belongs to careful, bookish prose rather than everyday talk. It suggests that a job is wearisome because of the sheer labour it demands, not because it is difficult to understand.
How OPEROSE is used
You will mostly meet operose in formal or literary writing, describing tasks, studies or processes that eat up time and energy.
- The monks copied the manuscript by hand, an operose task that took years.
- Compiling the index was an operose chore nobody envied.
- She dreaded the operose process of checking every footnote.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPEROSE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPEROSE
3 longer words begin with OPEROSE.
Shorter words from the letters in OPEROSE
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Common questions about OPEROSE
- Is OPEROSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPEROSE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPEROSE worth?
- OPEROSE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPEROSE mean?
- Requiring a great deal of hard work, or marked by painstaking effort.
- What letters can be added to OPEROSE?
- No single letter can be added to OPEROSE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of OPEROSE:
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