THENCE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. THENCE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept THENCE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful THENCE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for THENCE
No single letter turns THENCE into another word.
How THENCE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in THENCE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 125,426.
What does THENCE mean in Scrabble?
adverb
formalarchaic
From that place, or from that source, point or reason.
Thence belongs to the old family of words that includes hence and whence, and it points backwards to somewhere already named. A traveller going to the port and thence to the capital is leaving the port behind. It also works for reasoning, where an argument follows thence from an earlier step. Today it survives in legal writing, travel narrative and deliberately formal prose.
How THENCE is used
Formal and somewhat old-fashioned; common in legal texts and literary writing, rare in conversation.
- They sailed to Lisbon and thence to Brazil.
- The river rises in the hills and flows thence to the sea.
- The deed passes the land to her son and thence to his heirs.
- He proved the first claim and drew thence a bold conclusion.
- Thence the road climbs steeply toward the pass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of THENCE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of THENCE
The 6 tiles of THENCE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with THENCE
3 longer words begin with THENCE.
Shorter words from the letters in THENCE
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Common questions about THENCE
- Is THENCE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts THENCE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is THENCE worth?
- THENCE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does THENCE mean?
- From that place, or from that source, point or reason.
- What letters can be added to THENCE?
- No single letter can be added to THENCE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of THENCE:
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