ABCEE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABCEE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABCEE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABCEE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABCEE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
abceesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABCEE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABCEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 31,687.
What stands out about ABCEE
- The letters of ABCEE run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABCEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalchildish
The alphabet, named after its first three letters.
Abcee is built by spelling out the first three letters of the alphabet, A, B and C, the way a child might recite them. It functions as a whimsical stand-in for the ordinary word alphabet and shows up mainly in word-game dictionaries rather than in everyday prose. An older spelling, absey, follows the same idea but stretches to a fourth letter. Because alphabet already served the same purpose, abcee never spread much beyond specialist word lists.
How ABCEE is used
Informal and rare; encountered chiefly in word-game references rather than in ordinary writing.
- Abcee turned up as an obscure entry in the word list, meaning simply the alphabet.
- A teacher joked that the abcee was easier to sing than to spell.
- Few readers outside competitive word games have ever met abcee in print.
- The compiler defined abcee as another name for the alphabet.
- Reciting the abcee is how children first learn the order of letters.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABCEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ABCEE
1 longer words begin with ABCEE.
Shorter words from the letters in ABCEE
Common questions about ABCEE
- Is ABCEE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABCEE is not in it.
- How many points is ABCEE worth?
- ABCEE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABCEE mean?
- The alphabet, named after its first three letters.
- What letters can be added to ABCEE?
- ABCEE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABCEE:
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