SPATHULATE is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. SPATHULATE 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 SPATHULATE?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPATHULATE is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPATHULATE
No single letter turns SPATHULATE into another word.
How SPATHULATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in SPATHULATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SPATHULATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SPATHULATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Shaped like a spoon or a flat blade that is broad at the tip and narrow at the base.
Spathulate leaves look like tiny spoons, wide at the end and tapering toward the stem. It is a botanist word and a variant spelling of spatulate.
How SPATHULATE is used
Botanical and descriptive, applied to leaves, petals and similar parts.
- The plant has spathulate leaves in a low rosette.
- Look for a spathulate tip on the lower petals.
- The fossil showed a spathulate bone at one end.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPATHULATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPATHULATE
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Common questions about SPATHULATE
- Is SPATHULATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPATHULATE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPATHULATE worth?
- SPATHULATE is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPATHULATE mean?
- Shaped like a spoon or a flat blade that is broad at the tip and narrow at the base.
- What letters can be added to SPATHULATE?
- No single letter can be added to SPATHULATE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of SPATHULATE:
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