TELESTIC is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TELESTIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TELESTIC?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TELESTIC is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TELESTIC
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TELESTIC scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in TELESTIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TELESTIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TELESTIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Relating to religious mysteries or to a purpose or an end.
Telestic is a rare, learned word from Greek roots meaning completion or initiation into rites. A telestic acrostic is a poem whose last letters, not the first, spell out a word.
How TELESTIC is used
Telestic is very rare and turns up mainly in discussions of poetic form or ancient rites.
- The scholar studied the telestic rites of the ancient cult.
- A telestic verse hides its message in the final letters of each line.
- The telestic meaning of the ceremony was known only to initiates.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TELESTIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TELESTIC
The 8 tiles of TELESTIC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TELESTIC
3 longer words begin with TELESTIC.
Shorter words from the letters in TELESTIC
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Common questions about TELESTIC
- Is TELESTIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TELESTIC, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TELESTIC worth?
- TELESTIC is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TELESTIC mean?
- Relating to religious mysteries or to a purpose or an end.
- What letters can be added to TELESTIC?
- TELESTIC takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of TELESTIC:
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