SHELTERLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. SHELTERLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHELTERLESS?
| 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 SHELTERLESS is to know. It scores 14 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHELTERLESS
No single letter turns SHELTERLESS into another word.
How SHELTERLESS scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in SHELTERLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 3 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SHELTERLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SHELTERLESS
- SHELTERLESS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SHELTERLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Having no place to take cover from weather or danger.
Shelterless suggests exposure, as for a traveller caught on open moor or people left without a home after a disaster. It carries more pity than the plain word homeless.
How SHELTERLESS is used
Found in literary or humanitarian writing.
- The shelterless travellers waited out the storm under a bridge.
- Floods left thousands shelterless overnight.
- The poem describes shelterless children in a winter city.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHELTERLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SHELTERLESS
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Common questions about SHELTERLESS
- Is SHELTERLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHELTERLESS, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHELTERLESS worth?
- SHELTERLESS is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHELTERLESS mean?
- Having no place to take cover from weather or danger.
- What letters can be added to SHELTERLESS?
- No single letter can be added to SHELTERLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of SHELTERLESS:
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