THOLEIITIC is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. THOLEIITIC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THOLEIITIC?
| 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 THOLEIITIC is to know. It scores 15 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THOLEIITIC
No single letter turns THOLEIITIC into another word.
How THOLEIITIC scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in THOLEIITIC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| i | 3 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so THOLEIITIC has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about THOLEIITIC
- THOLEIITIC runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does THOLEIITIC mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Describing a kind of basalt-like volcanic rock that is rich in silica and iron and poor in aluminium.
Tholeiitic magma is common at mid-ocean ridges and on volcanic islands such as Hawaii. Geologists use the word to sort basalts into groups by their chemistry.
How THOLEIITIC is used
Geology and petrology only.
- The ridge is built of tholeiitic basalt.
- Samples showed a tholeiitic trend in their chemistry.
- A tholeiitic lava flow covered the plain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THOLEIITIC and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in THOLEIITIC
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Common questions about THOLEIITIC
- Is THOLEIITIC valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THOLEIITIC, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THOLEIITIC worth?
- THOLEIITIC is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THOLEIITIC mean?
- Describing a kind of basalt-like volcanic rock that is rich in silica and iron and poor in aluminium.
- What letters can be added to THOLEIITIC?
- No single letter can be added to THOLEIITIC to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of THOLEIITIC:
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