POPELESS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. POPELESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POPELESS?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POPELESS is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POPELESS
No single letter turns POPELESS into another word.
How POPELESS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POPELESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POPELESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POPELESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Having no pope.
The suffix -less turns a title into a state of absence, and popeless is occasionally used for a church or period when the papal seat stands empty. It is a rare word that mostly turns up in historical or satirical writing.
How POPELESS is used
Popeless is seldom met outside church history, essays and wordplay.
- The popeless months after his death left the cardinals anxious.
- A popeless Church had to be governed by its council.
- The writer imagined a popeless Rome, quiet and unwatched.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POPELESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POPELESS
The 8 tiles of POPELESS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in POPELESS
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Common questions about POPELESS
- Is POPELESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POPELESS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POPELESS worth?
- POPELESS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POPELESS mean?
- Having no pope.
- What letters can be added to POPELESS?
- No single letter can be added to POPELESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POPELESS:
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