SCRIBAL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SCRIBAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCRIBAL?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCRIBAL is to know. It scores 11 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCRIBAL
No single letter turns SCRIBAL into another word.
How SCRIBAL scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SCRIBAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 514,646.
What does SCRIBAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Relating to scribes or to the copying of manuscripts by hand.
Historians speak of scribal errors when a copyist wrote a word wrongly, and these slips often help trace how a text was handed down. A scribal hand is the recognizable handwriting of a particular copyist.
How SCRIBAL is used
Scribal is used chiefly in discussions of manuscripts, textual scholarship and medieval history.
- The odd spelling is probably a scribal mistake.
- Scribal habits changed from one monastery to another.
- The scholar compared the scribal hands of two manuscripts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCRIBAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCRIBAL
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Common questions about SCRIBAL
- Is SCRIBAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCRIBAL, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCRIBAL worth?
- SCRIBAL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCRIBAL mean?
- Relating to scribes or to the copying of manuscripts by hand.
- What letters can be added to SCRIBAL?
- No single letter can be added to SCRIBAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SCRIBAL:
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