UNIMODAL is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. UNIMODAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNIMODAL?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNIMODAL is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNIMODAL
No single letter turns UNIMODAL into another word.
How UNIMODAL scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in UNIMODAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNIMODAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about UNIMODAL
- All 8 letters of UNIMODAL are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does UNIMODAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Having a single peak or most common value, as in a statistical distribution.
A unimodal curve rises to one summit and then falls, unlike a bimodal curve with two humps. Statisticians check this shape before choosing which averages describe the data well.
How UNIMODAL is used
Common in statistics when describing the shape of a data set.
- The histogram of heights is unimodal and roughly symmetric.
- A unimodal distribution has only one mode.
- They tested whether the unimodal assumption held for the sample.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNIMODAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in UNIMODAL
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Common questions about UNIMODAL
- Is UNIMODAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNIMODAL, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNIMODAL worth?
- UNIMODAL is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNIMODAL mean?
- Having a single peak or most common value, as in a statistical distribution.
- What letters can be added to UNIMODAL?
- No single letter can be added to UNIMODAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of UNIMODAL:
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