SCALE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SCALE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCALE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCALE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCALE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCALE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SCALE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SCALE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SCALE mean in Scrabble?
noun
One of the small, thin, flat plates that overlap to cover the skin of a fish, reptile or the wings of a butterfly, or more generally a graduated system used to measure, weigh or represent size.
A scale on a fish or snake is one of many small overlapping plates that together form a tough, flexible outer covering, and cooks scrape a fish clean of its scales before cooking it. The same word names an instrument for weighing, called a scale or a set of scales, because its swinging balance once looked much like the graduated markings used elsewhere. A map, ruler or model is said to be built to a certain scale when every distance on it stands for a fixed, larger distance in reality, and engineers speak of scaling a design up or down using exactly that same idea. Musicians borrow the word again for a fixed sequence of notes climbing steadily from a low pitch to a high one, called a musical scale, and the verb to scale a wall or a cliff describes climbing it directly, much like moving up that same sequence.
How SCALE is used
Extremely common across everyday speech and technical fields alike, from fish anatomy and cooking to mapmaking, music and mountaineering.
- A single loose scale drifted off the fish as the cook rinsed it.
- He weighed the flour carefully on the kitchen scale.
- The map was drawn to a scale of one centimetre per kilometre.
- She practised a simple scale on the piano before starting her lesson.
- The climbers had to scale a steep rock face before reaching the summit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCALE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCALE
The 5 tiles of SCALE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SCALE
Showing 24 of 25 words that begin with SCALE.
Words ending in SCALE
19 words end in SCALE. Useful as a back hook: play SCALE onto a word already on the board.
Words with SCALE inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain SCALE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SCALE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SCALE
Common questions about SCALE
- Is SCALE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCALE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCALE worth?
- SCALE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCALE mean?
- One of the small, thin, flat plates that overlap to cover the skin of a fish, reptile or the wings of a butterfly, or more generally a graduated system used to measure, weigh or represent size.
- What letters can be added to SCALE?
- SCALE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SCALE:
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