POPULATE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. POPULATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept POPULATE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful POPULATE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POPULATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How POPULATE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in POPULATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so POPULATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does POPULATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To live in a place, or to fill a place with people, animals or things.
The verb works from both directions: settlers populate a land by moving into it, while planners populate a region by encouraging people to settle. In computing it has a looser sense of filling fields or tables with data.
How POPULATE is used
Populate takes a place or a container as its object, as in populate an island or populate a database.
- Farmers and fishermen began to populate the valley.
- Rabbits were released to populate the empty island.
- You can populate the table with sample records.
- Dozens of odd characters populate the novel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POPULATE and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with POPULATE
2 longer words begin with POPULATE.
Shorter words from the letters in POPULATE
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Common questions about POPULATE
- Is POPULATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POPULATE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POPULATE worth?
- POPULATE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POPULATE mean?
- To live in a place, or to fill a place with people, animals or things.
- What letters can be added to POPULATE?
- POPULATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of POPULATE:
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