Sibilant is valid Scrabble Word

Is sibilant a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is sibilant valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for SIBILANT in dictionary:

NOUN:

a hissing sound
a sibilant speech sound.
A sibiliant letter.
a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
consonant pronounced with a hissing sound

ADJECTIVE:

hissing, also SIBILOUS
making or characterized by a hissing sound
(of a speech sound) sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh.
Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f\', `s\', `z\', or `th\' in both `thin\' and `then\')

hissing

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a speech sound produced by the fricative passage of breath through a narrow orifice

Words related to SIBILANT

hissing11 sibilance13 sibilances14 sibilancy16 sibilantly15 sibilants11 sibilous10

Words that contain SIBILANT

sibilants11 sibilantly15

How to use SIBILANT in a sentence

The sibilant sound of whispering voices died down after a few minutes and then began the long tedious wait for the return of the jury.
Again she strained her eyes, when still again those soft, sibilant whisperings sounded weird and quite inexplicable.
Pascal came out of this panting, haggard, his speech sibilant and painful.
Not a sound disturbed the stillness of the garden except for sibilant rustlings of the leaves, occasioned by a slight breeze.
Sin Sin Wa uttered one sibilant word, withdrew his hands from his sleeves, and, stepping around the end of the counter, dropped upon his knees beside the raven.
Outside, hushing him to rest, there sounded the sibilant rain, and from the sea below ripples broke gently and rhythmically on the pebbly beach.
A game of chess was in progress at one table, and between moves each contestant would refresh himself with a long-drawn, sibilant mouthful of coffee.
Again and again the flashes leaped out of the surrounding shadows and the air was sibilant with whining missiles.
Thin columns of blue smoke drifted up here and there between the close-set tents, and the sibilant wearing of stone-mills, as they ground the wheat, was heard in many households.
Presently the bolder began to whisper and conjecture among themselves, hushing the sibilant surmises of the humbler with a cautioning frown.

The mother was away foraging, but a faint sibilant squeaking within the dome told me that the little ones were there, and hungry as usual.
At a concert led by the famous von Buelow half a dozen women come in after the music has begun, rustling, sibilant, and excited.
The evening flight of the wild duck from Crooked Lake to a chain of swamps passed intermittently over the clearing with a sibilant whistle of wings.
Then the sibilant voice of the wind alone broke the stillness.
Ducks and geese flew over the Island so low that the sibilant sound of their wings could be heard from the porch.
He had known a Spaniard at Louis le Grand who spoke a fluent but most extraordinary French, with a grotesque excess of sibilant sounds.
The first sure effect of my announcement came in a quick exclamation from Wright, a sibilant intake of breath, that did not seem to denote surprise so much as certainty.

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