ROUNDELAY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ROUNDELAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROUNDELAY?
| 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 ROUNDELAY is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROUNDELAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
roundelaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ROUNDELAY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in ROUNDELAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ROUNDELAY has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ROUNDELAY
- All 9 letters of ROUNDELAY are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ROUNDELAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A short, simple song in which a line or phrase keeps coming back.
A roundelay belongs to old pastoral poetry, where shepherds sing it in the fields. The word can also mean a dance in a circle. Today it turns up mostly in poems and deliberately old-fashioned prose.
How ROUNDELAY is used
Used in literary or poetic writing, often for birdsong or a country tune.
- The shepherd sang a roundelay on the hill.
- Birds filled the dawn with a cheerful roundelay.
- The poet closed the verse with a gentle roundelay.
- Villagers joined hands for a roundelay around the maypole.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROUNDELAY and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ROUNDELAY
1 longer words begin with ROUNDELAY.
Shorter words from the letters in ROUNDELAY
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Common questions about ROUNDELAY
- Is ROUNDELAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROUNDELAY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROUNDELAY worth?
- ROUNDELAY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROUNDELAY mean?
- A short, simple song in which a line or phrase keeps coming back.
- What letters can be added to ROUNDELAY?
- ROUNDELAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of ROUNDELAY:
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