PAUSAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PAUSAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAUSAL?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAUSAL is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAUSAL
No single letter turns PAUSAL into another word.
How PAUSAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PAUSAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does PAUSAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalrare
Relating to or occurring at a pause in speech, especially the special word form that appears immediately before a break in a sentence in Hebrew, Arabic, and related languages.
In the grammar of Hebrew and Arabic, a word can change its shape depending on whether it falls in the middle of a sentence or right before a pause, and grammarians call this altered ending pausal to distinguish it from the ordinary, non-pausal form. Outside that specific linguistic sense, pausal can also describe writing or speech broken up by frequent pauses or hesitations. The word is rarely encountered outside grammar textbooks and academic discussions of Semitic languages. Students of biblical Hebrew in particular learn to recognize pausal forms when reading verses that end with a strong break in the text.
How PAUSAL is used
A specialized grammatical term, used mainly in discussions of Hebrew, Arabic, and related Semitic languages.
- The textbook explained the pausal form used at the end of a Hebrew verse.
- Grammarians described the vowel change as a pausal lengthening.
- Students practiced identifying the pausal ending in each line.
- The pausal form differed slightly from the word's ordinary spelling.
- Arabic grammar includes several rules for pausal pronunciation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAUSAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about PAUSAL
- Is PAUSAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAUSAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAUSAL worth?
- PAUSAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAUSAL mean?
- Relating to or occurring at a pause in speech, especially the special word form that appears immediately before a break in a sentence in Hebrew, Arabic, and related languages.
- What letters can be added to PAUSAL?
- No single letter can be added to PAUSAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PAUSAL:
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