TELOS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TELOS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TELOS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TELOS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TELOS
No single letter turns TELOS into another word.
How TELOS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TELOS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,169.
What stands out about TELOS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TELOS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The ultimate end or purpose toward which a thing or an action is directed.
Telos is central to Aristotle's account of causation, where the final cause of a thing is the telos it exists to reach, such as growth being the telos of an acorn. The word gives English the term teleology, the study of purpose and design in nature or in human action. Outside philosophy, telos occasionally appears in discussions of strategy or history when a writer wants to name the end state that everything else is working toward. The plural is teloi, formed the Greek way rather than by adding an ordinary s.
How TELOS is used
Chiefly a term in philosophy, describing the purpose or end state a thing is directed toward.
- Aristotle treated an acorn's growth into an oak as its telos.
- The philosopher argued that history has no single telos.
- Their strategy lacked any clear telos beyond staying in business.
- A telos, in this sense, is an end built into the thing itself.
- Students often confuse telos with a simple goal chosen after the fact.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TELOS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TELOS
The 5 tiles of TELOS in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in TELOS
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Common questions about TELOS
- Is TELOS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TELOS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TELOS worth?
- TELOS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TELOS mean?
- The ultimate end or purpose toward which a thing or an action is directed.
- What letters can be added to TELOS?
- No single letter can be added to TELOS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TELOS:
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