POETLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. POETLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POETLESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 POETLESS is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POETLESS
No single letter turns POETLESS into another word.
How POETLESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POETLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POETLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POETLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Having no poet, or lacking any poets at all.
Poetless is a rare, transparent formation that turns up when someone describes a place or age as empty of verse-makers. Because poetless is so seldom used, the reader must take its meaning from the parts of the word.
How POETLESS is used
Poetless is occasional and literary, describing a group, town or era without poets.
- The poetless village held no readings that winter.
- He grumbled that the committee was poetless and dull.
- A poetless age, she wrote, is a quiet one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POETLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in POETLESS
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Common questions about POETLESS
- Is POETLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POETLESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POETLESS worth?
- POETLESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POETLESS mean?
- Having no poet, or lacking any poets at all.
- What letters can be added to POETLESS?
- No single letter can be added to POETLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POETLESS:
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