SONANTAL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SONANTAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SONANTAL?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SONANTAL is to know. It scores 8 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SONANTAL
No single letter turns SONANTAL into another word.
How SONANTAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SONANTAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SONANTAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SONANTAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Of a speech sound, voiced or able to form a syllable by itself.
Linguists describe a sonantal sound as one carrying its own vibration, as with certain liquids and nasals. The word turns up in older phonetics works and in studies of early Indo-European.
How SONANTAL is used
Technical term in phonetics and historical linguistics.
- The scholar marked a sonantal r in the reconstructed root.
- A sonantal nasal can carry the syllable alone.
- Older grammars call the vowel-like l sonantal.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SONANTAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SONANTAL
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Common questions about SONANTAL
- Is SONANTAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SONANTAL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SONANTAL worth?
- SONANTAL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SONANTAL mean?
- Of a speech sound, voiced or able to form a syllable by itself.
- What letters can be added to SONANTAL?
- No single letter can be added to SONANTAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SONANTAL:
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