Scale
/skeɪl/
noun
- A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
"Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10."
- Size; scope.
"The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale."
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
"This map uses a scale of 1:10."
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
verb
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
"We should scale that up by a factor of 10."
- To climb to the top of.
"Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
"That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Total: 7 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Scale"
Scale is a 5-letter word that scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "scale" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Scale" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "scale" is a low-scoring word.