SCARLATINA is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SCARLATINA 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 SCARLATINA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCARLATINA is to know. It scores 12 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCARLATINA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SCARLATINA scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in SCARLATINA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 3 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCARLATINA has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCARLATINA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A contagious bacterial illness, mostly of children, marked by fever, sore throat and a bright red rash.
Scarlatina is the older medical term that doctors now usually replace with scarlet fever. Antibiotics treat it effectively today, though it was once greatly feared.
How SCARLATINA is used
Mostly found in older medical or historical writing.
- The nineteenth-century novel describes a child dying of scarlatina.
- Scarlatina spread through the school before the holidays.
- Doctors once isolated every patient with scarlatina for weeks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCARLATINA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SCARLATINA
The 10 tiles of SCARLATINA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SCARLATINA
2 longer words begin with SCARLATINA.
Shorter words from the letters in SCARLATINA
Showing 40 of 518. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about SCARLATINA
- Is SCARLATINA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCARLATINA, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCARLATINA worth?
- SCARLATINA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCARLATINA mean?
- A contagious bacterial illness, mostly of children, marked by fever, sore throat and a bright red rash.
- What letters can be added to SCARLATINA?
- SCARLATINA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of SCARLATINA:
Open SCARLATINA in the Word Finder