Tanist is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for TANIST in dictionary:

NOUN:

(historical) the heir apparent to a Celtic chief
heir apparent of a Celtic chieftain
In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
the heir apparent to a Celtic chief, typically the most vigorous adult of his kin, elected during the chief's lifetime.

Words related to TANIST

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How to use TANIST in a sentence

You are all acquainted with the ways of the Tanist priests.
The doctrines of the Tanist priests differ in this respect.
A more characteristic specimen of a Tanist stone may be seen on the top of Dun Add, a rocky isolated hill about two hundred feet high, in Argyleshire, not far from Ardrishaig.
This story must have been an after-thought, to account for what we may suppose to have been a prehistoric Tanist stone.

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