TROPOLOGICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. TROPOLOGICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TROPOLOGICAL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TROPOLOGICAL is to know. It scores 17 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TROPOLOGICAL
No single letter turns TROPOLOGICAL into another word.
How TROPOLOGICAL scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in TROPOLOGICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 3 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so TROPOLOGICAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does TROPOLOGICAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literarytechnical
Relating to figures of speech, or to the reading of scripture for its moral and figurative meaning.
Literary critics call a passage tropological when it works through metaphor and other figures. In older biblical study the word names the moral level of interpretation, which asks what a text teaches about right conduct.
How TROPOLOGICAL is used
Scholarly word from rhetoric and biblical interpretation.
- The critic gave a tropological reading of the poem.
- Medieval preachers favoured a tropological meaning for each parable.
- Her essay explored tropological patterns in the novel.
- A tropological approach looks for the moral lesson beneath the story.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TROPOLOGICAL and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TROPOLOGICAL
1 longer words begin with TROPOLOGICAL.
Shorter words from the letters in TROPOLOGICAL
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Common questions about TROPOLOGICAL
- Is TROPOLOGICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TROPOLOGICAL, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TROPOLOGICAL worth?
- TROPOLOGICAL is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TROPOLOGICAL mean?
- Relating to figures of speech, or to the reading of scripture for its moral and figurative meaning.
- What letters can be added to TROPOLOGICAL?
- No single letter can be added to TROPOLOGICAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of TROPOLOGICAL:
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