ANAPHORA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ANAPHORA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANAPHORA?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANAPHORA is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANAPHORA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANAPHORA scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in ANAPHORA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANAPHORA has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about ANAPHORA
- ANAPHORA 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 ANAPHORA mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The repeating of a word or phrase at the start of successive lines or sentences for effect.
Speakers use anaphora to build rhythm and emphasis, as in a series of sentences that all begin the same way. Linguists use the same word for a pronoun that points back to something said earlier. Context shows whether the rhetorical or the grammatical meaning is intended.
How ANAPHORA is used
Used in rhetoric for repetition at the start of clauses and in linguistics for backward reference.
- The speech relies on anaphora, repeating the same opening in every paragraph.
- In the sentence she lost her keys and she found them, the second she shows anaphora.
- Teachers often introduce anaphora with famous political speeches.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANAPHORA and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANAPHORA
2 longer words begin with ANAPHORA.
Shorter words from the letters in ANAPHORA
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Common questions about ANAPHORA
- Is ANAPHORA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANAPHORA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANAPHORA worth?
- ANAPHORA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANAPHORA mean?
- The repeating of a word or phrase at the start of successive lines or sentences for effect.
- What letters can be added to ANAPHORA?
- ANAPHORA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of ANAPHORA:
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