UNPEOPLE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. UNPEOPLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNPEOPLE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNPEOPLE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNPEOPLE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNPEOPLE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in UNPEOPLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so UNPEOPLE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does UNPEOPLE mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To remove the inhabitants from a place or sharply reduce its population.
To unpeople a region is to empty it, whether by war, disease or forced removal. The word has a stark literary feel, and as a noun it was coined to describe those treated as politically worthless.
How UNPEOPLE is used
Literary and formal; to unpeople usually appears in writing about devastation, clearances or depopulation.
- The plague threatened to unpeople whole valleys.
- Landlords did not hesitate to unpeople the glen for sheep.
- War could unpeople a district within a single season.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNPEOPLE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNPEOPLE
2 longer words begin with UNPEOPLE.
Shorter words from the letters in UNPEOPLE
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Common questions about UNPEOPLE
- Is UNPEOPLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNPEOPLE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNPEOPLE worth?
- UNPEOPLE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNPEOPLE mean?
- To remove the inhabitants from a place or sharply reduce its population.
- What letters can be added to UNPEOPLE?
- UNPEOPLE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of UNPEOPLE:
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