UNLEAD is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. UNLEAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNLEAD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNLEAD is to know. It scores 7 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNLEAD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
unleadsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNLEAD scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in UNLEAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,744.
What does UNLEAD mean in Scrabble?
verb
printinghistorical
To remove the lead used to add space between lines of metal type, or, more generally, to take the lead out of something.
In traditional printing, thin strips of lead called leads were inserted between lines of type to add vertical spacing, and to unlead a page meant pulling those strips back out to tighten the lines together. Outside the print shop the same word can describe stripping lead from any object, such as old pipework or paint, though this general use is far less common. The term belongs mostly to the vocabulary of typesetting and printing history.
How UNLEAD is used
A specialist printing term, now mostly historical since lead spacing has been replaced by digital typesetting.
- The typesetter had to unlead the paragraph to fit it on one page.
- Compositors would unlead a column to squeeze in another line.
- The old manual explains how to unlead type before resetting it.
- He learned to unlead a galley of lines by hand.
- Modern software makes it unnecessary to unlead metal type at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNLEAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UNLEAD
The 6 tiles of UNLEAD in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with UNLEAD
4 longer words begin with UNLEAD.
Shorter words from the letters in UNLEAD
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Common questions about UNLEAD
- Is UNLEAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNLEAD, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNLEAD worth?
- UNLEAD is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNLEAD mean?
- To remove the lead used to add space between lines of metal type, or, more generally, to take the lead out of something.
- What letters can be added to UNLEAD?
- UNLEAD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of UNLEAD:
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