OPIATE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OPIATE 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 OPIATE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OPIATE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OPIATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OPIATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OPIATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,775.
What does OPIATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A drug derived from or related to opium, used medically to relieve pain or induce sleep, or more broadly, anything that dulls awareness or discomfort.
Doctors once prescribed opiates such as laudanum for pain and insomnia long before the risks of dependence were well understood, and the same family of drugs remains central to modern pain management under strict medical control. Writers also use opiate figuratively for anything that numbs difficult feelings rather than solving them, as when routine or distraction is called an opiate for grief. The adjective form appears in older writing too, describing anything sleep-inducing or numbing, opium-based or not.
How OPIATE is used
Used in medical, historical and pharmacological writing, and figuratively in literature for anything that dulls pain or awareness.
- The nurse recorded the exact dose of opiate given after surgery.
- Victorian doctors handed out opiate tinctures for almost any complaint.
- He called television an opiate that let him forget the day's troubles.
- Strict rules now govern how an opiate can be prescribed for chronic pain.
- The coroner's report listed an opiate overdose as the cause of death.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OPIATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OPIATE
2 longer words begin with OPIATE.
Shorter words from the letters in OPIATE
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Common questions about OPIATE
- Is OPIATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OPIATE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OPIATE worth?
- OPIATE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OPIATE mean?
- A drug derived from or related to opium, used medically to relieve pain or induce sleep, or more broadly, anything that dulls awareness or discomfort.
- What letters can be added to OPIATE?
- OPIATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OPIATE:
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