SYMBOLIST is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. SYMBOLIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SYMBOLIST?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYMBOLIST is to know. It scores 16 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYMBOLIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
symbolistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SYMBOLIST scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SYMBOLIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SYMBOLIST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SYMBOLIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
An artist or writer who expresses ideas indirectly through symbols, or a person skilled at interpreting symbols.
The symbolists were a late nineteenth-century movement in poetry and painting that preferred suggestion to plain statement. In a looser sense, a symbolist is anyone who reads or uses symbols to reach a hidden meaning.
How SYMBOLIST is used
Common in art and literary history.
- The poet was a leading symbolist in Paris.
- A symbolist painter might show a dream rather than a scene.
- As a symbolist, she saw meaning in every colour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYMBOLIST and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYMBOLIST
4 longer words begin with SYMBOLIST.
Shorter words from the letters in SYMBOLIST
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Common questions about SYMBOLIST
- Is SYMBOLIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SYMBOLIST, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SYMBOLIST worth?
- SYMBOLIST is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYMBOLIST mean?
- An artist or writer who expresses ideas indirectly through symbols, or a person skilled at interpreting symbols.
- What letters can be added to SYMBOLIST?
- SYMBOLIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SYMBOLIST:
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