SCATOLOGY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SCATOLOGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCATOLOGY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCATOLOGY is to know. It scores 15 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCATOLOGY
No single letter turns SCATOLOGY into another word.
How SCATOLOGY scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SCATOLOGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCATOLOGY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCATOLOGY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The study of faeces, or a fixation on excrement and crude bodily matters in speech or literature.
Scatology can be a scientific field, as when fossil droppings are analysed, or a label for crude humour that dwells on bodily waste. Which meaning is intended usually shows in whether the speaker sounds clinical or mocking.
How SCATOLOGY is used
Scatology appears in scholarly writing about excrement and in criticism of vulgar books or jokes.
- The museum curator specialised in the scatology of extinct animals.
- Critics dismissed the novel as cheap scatology with no real plot.
- Her thesis on scatology in medieval satire surprised the committee.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCATOLOGY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCATOLOGY
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Common questions about SCATOLOGY
- Is SCATOLOGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCATOLOGY, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCATOLOGY worth?
- SCATOLOGY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCATOLOGY mean?
- The study of faeces, or a fixation on excrement and crude bodily matters in speech or literature.
- What letters can be added to SCATOLOGY?
- No single letter can be added to SCATOLOGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SCATOLOGY:
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