THRIFTLESS is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. THRIFTLESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THRIFTLESS?
| 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 THRIFTLESS is to know. It scores 16 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THRIFTLESS
No single letter turns THRIFTLESS into another word.
How THRIFTLESS scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in THRIFTLESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so THRIFTLESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does THRIFTLESS mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Wasteful with money and careless about the future.
Thriftless is the opposite of thrifty and implies a lack of foresight as well as extravagance. It has an old-fashioned ring and turns up in older novels describing a spendthrift relative.
How THRIFTLESS is used
Dated word used in literary or historical writing to criticise wasteful spending habits.
- His thriftless habits emptied the family fortune in a decade.
- She scolded her thriftless nephew for buying another carriage.
- A thriftless harvest year left the farm in debt.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THRIFTLESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with THRIFTLESS
3 longer words begin with THRIFTLESS.
Shorter words from the letters in THRIFTLESS
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Common questions about THRIFTLESS
- Is THRIFTLESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THRIFTLESS, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THRIFTLESS worth?
- THRIFTLESS is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THRIFTLESS mean?
- Wasteful with money and careless about the future.
- What letters can be added to THRIFTLESS?
- No single letter can be added to THRIFTLESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of THRIFTLESS:
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