PICTOGRAPHY is a valid Scrabble word — 24 points
Yes. PICTOGRAPHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 24 points in Scrabble and 26 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PICTOGRAPHY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PICTOGRAPHY is to know. It scores 24 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PICTOGRAPHY
No single letter turns PICTOGRAPHY into another word.
How PICTOGRAPHY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in PICTOGRAPHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so PICTOGRAPHY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does PICTOGRAPHY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The use of pictures or picture symbols to record and communicate ideas.
Early writing grew out of pictography, where a drawn image stood for an object or idea. Road signs and airport symbols are modern descendants of the same habit.
How PICTOGRAPHY is used
Used in discussions of writing systems and design.
- Ancient Egyptian pictography combined images and sounds.
- The museum showed early pictography on clay tablets.
- Modern signage depends heavily on pictography.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PICTOGRAPHY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PICTOGRAPHY
The 11 tiles of PICTOGRAPHY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PICTOGRAPHY
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Common questions about PICTOGRAPHY
- Is PICTOGRAPHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PICTOGRAPHY, where it scores 26 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PICTOGRAPHY worth?
- PICTOGRAPHY is worth 24 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PICTOGRAPHY mean?
- The use of pictures or picture symbols to record and communicate ideas.
- What letters can be added to PICTOGRAPHY?
- No single letter can be added to PICTOGRAPHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of PICTOGRAPHY:
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