VITALIST is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. VITALIST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VITALIST?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VITALIST is to know. It scores 11 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VITALIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
vitalistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VITALIST scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in VITALIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so VITALIST has to be built on the board across turns.
What does VITALIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A person who believes that life depends on a special force beyond ordinary chemistry and physics.
The label belongs to the history of biology, where vitalists argued with mechanists about what separates living things from machines. Few scientists now accept the view.
How VITALIST is used
Vitalist is a term from philosophy and the history of science.
- The vitalist insisted that a living cell was more than chemistry.
- Nineteenth-century debates pitted every vitalist against the mechanists.
- She wrote an essay on a famous vitalist and his critics.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VITALIST and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VITALIST
3 longer words begin with VITALIST.
Shorter words from the letters in VITALIST
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Common questions about VITALIST
- Is VITALIST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VITALIST, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VITALIST worth?
- VITALIST is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VITALIST mean?
- A person who believes that life depends on a special force beyond ordinary chemistry and physics.
- What letters can be added to VITALIST?
- VITALIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of VITALIST:
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