UNPATENTABLE is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. UNPATENTABLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNPATENTABLE?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNPATENTABLE is to know. It scores 16 from 12 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNPATENTABLE
No single letter turns UNPATENTABLE into another word.
How UNPATENTABLE scores
Face value of the 12 tiles in UNPATENTABLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNPATENTABLE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UNPATENTABLE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
legal
Not eligible for legal protection as an invention.
Ideas, natural laws and obvious tweaks are often unpatentable, however clever they seem. Patent offices reject such claims, so inventors check this early.
How UNPATENTABLE is used
Unpatentable is used in patent law and in talk about inventions and software.
- The examiner ruled the abstract idea unpatentable.
- A natural substance is generally unpatentable.
- Her unpatentable method was kept as a trade secret.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNPATENTABLE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in UNPATENTABLE
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Common questions about UNPATENTABLE
- Is UNPATENTABLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNPATENTABLE, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNPATENTABLE worth?
- UNPATENTABLE is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNPATENTABLE mean?
- Not eligible for legal protection as an invention.
- What letters can be added to UNPATENTABLE?
- No single letter can be added to UNPATENTABLE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 12 letters of UNPATENTABLE:
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