POLLUTIVE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. POLLUTIVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POLLUTIVE?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POLLUTIVE is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POLLUTIVE
No single letter turns POLLUTIVE into another word.
How POLLUTIVE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in POLLUTIVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POLLUTIVE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POLLUTIVE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Tending to dirty or poison air, water or soil.
Pollutive is a rare, slightly technical adjective found in environmental writing, where most authors would pick polluting instead. It points to the harmful effect of a substance or process on its surroundings.
How POLLUTIVE is used
Appears in reports and legal texts about emissions, spills and waste, usually before a noun such as pollutive discharge.
- The regulator banned the pollutive discharge from the old tannery.
- Burning coal in open pits is a deeply pollutive habit.
- Engineers searched for a less pollutive way to bleach the paper.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POLLUTIVE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in POLLUTIVE
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Common questions about POLLUTIVE
- Is POLLUTIVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POLLUTIVE, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POLLUTIVE worth?
- POLLUTIVE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POLLUTIVE mean?
- Tending to dirty or poison air, water or soil.
- What letters can be added to POLLUTIVE?
- No single letter can be added to POLLUTIVE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of POLLUTIVE:
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