UNALLOYED is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. UNALLOYED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNALLOYED?
| 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 UNALLOYED is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNALLOYED
No single letter turns UNALLOYED into another word.
How UNALLOYED scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in UNALLOYED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNALLOYED has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UNALLOYED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Completely pure, with nothing mixed in that weakens or spoils it.
The word began in metalwork, where an unalloyed metal has no cheaper metal blended into it. Today it mostly describes feelings such as joy or relief, suggesting there is not a trace of doubt in them.
How UNALLOYED is used
Used most often before nouns such as joy, delight or success to stress that nothing dilutes them.
- The news filled her with unalloyed joy.
- It was not an unalloyed success, but it was a good start.
- He felt unalloyed relief when the results arrived.
- The jeweller insisted the bar was unalloyed gold.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNALLOYED and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in UNALLOYED
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Common questions about UNALLOYED
- Is UNALLOYED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNALLOYED, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNALLOYED worth?
- UNALLOYED is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNALLOYED mean?
- Completely pure, with nothing mixed in that weakens or spoils it.
- What letters can be added to UNALLOYED?
- No single letter can be added to UNALLOYED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of UNALLOYED:
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