AMNESIA is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AMNESIA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AMNESIA?
| 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: 56 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AMNESIA is to know. It scores 9 from 7 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AMNESIA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AMNESIA scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in AMNESIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 85,774.
What stands out about AMNESIA
- AMNESIA begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does AMNESIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
medical
A partial or total loss of memory, often caused by injury, illness or shock.
Amnesia can erase recent events or older ones, and in stories it is a favourite plot device. In real medicine it is a symptom with many causes, from head injury to disease.
How AMNESIA is used
Amnesia is used in medicine and in fiction, and also figuratively for collective forgetting.
- The accident left him with amnesia.
- The film follows a woman suffering from amnesia.
- Critics spoke of historical amnesia about the war.
- Doctors tested her for amnesia after the fall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AMNESIA and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of AMNESIA
The 7 tiles of AMNESIA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with AMNESIA
3 longer words begin with AMNESIA.
Shorter words from the letters in AMNESIA
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Common questions about AMNESIA
- Is AMNESIA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AMNESIA, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AMNESIA worth?
- AMNESIA is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AMNESIA mean?
- A partial or total loss of memory, often caused by injury, illness or shock.
- What letters can be added to AMNESIA?
- AMNESIA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of AMNESIA:
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