UNILINEAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. UNILINEAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNILINEAL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNILINEAL is to know. It scores 9 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNILINEAL
No single letter turns UNILINEAL into another word.
How UNILINEAL scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in UNILINEAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNILINEAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UNILINEAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Tracing family descent through only one line, either the father's or the mother's.
Anthropologists classify societies as unilineal when kinship follows one parent only, unlike systems where both sides count equally. The word is also used of a pattern of cultural development that is said to follow a single path.
How UNILINEAL is used
An anthropology term used for kinship systems based on one line of descent.
- The clan has a unilineal system of inheritance through the mother.
- Anthropologists contrast unilineal and bilateral kinship.
- The theory of unilineal cultural evolution is now widely rejected.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNILINEAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in UNILINEAL
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Common questions about UNILINEAL
- Is UNILINEAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNILINEAL, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNILINEAL worth?
- UNILINEAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNILINEAL mean?
- Tracing family descent through only one line, either the father's or the mother's.
- What letters can be added to UNILINEAL?
- No single letter can be added to UNILINEAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of UNILINEAL:
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