PALATE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PALATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PALATE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PALATE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PALATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PALATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PALATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does PALATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The roof of the mouth, separating the mouth from the nasal cavity, or a person's sense of taste.
Made of a bony hard section toward the front and a soft, muscular section further back, this structure lets a person breathe through the nose while chewing or swallowing, since it keeps the two passages apart during eating. Dentists and speech therapists refer to the palate when examining how well it supports both speech and swallowing. Because taste buds and smell combine there to shape how food registers, the same word also names a person's ability to detect and enjoy flavours, as with a wine taster's trained palate, or more loosely an audience's palate for a certain kind of humour. A cleft palate, present from birth, leaves this structure incompletely joined and usually needs surgical correction.
How PALATE is used
Used literally for the anatomical roof of the mouth and figuratively for a person's sense of taste or preference.
- The dentist examined the roof of the palate for any abnormality.
- Years of tasting wine had trained her palate to notice faint differences.
- A cleft palate can usually be corrected with surgery in infancy.
- The chef designed the menu to suit a more adventurous palate.
- Spicy food can overwhelm an unaccustomed palate.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PALATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PALATE
The 6 tiles of PALATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PALATE
2 longer words begin with PALATE.
Shorter words from the letters in PALATE
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Common questions about PALATE
- Is PALATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PALATE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PALATE worth?
- PALATE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PALATE mean?
- The roof of the mouth, separating the mouth from the nasal cavity, or a person's sense of taste.
- What letters can be added to PALATE?
- PALATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PALATE:
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