ANTIPHONARY is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. ANTIPHONARY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANTIPHONARY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANTIPHONARY is to know. It scores 19 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANTIPHONARY
No single letter turns ANTIPHONARY into another word.
How ANTIPHONARY scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in ANTIPHONARY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so ANTIPHONARY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does ANTIPHONARY mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
A book of antiphons and other chants sung in the services of the Western Church.
A medieval antiphonary was often a huge volume so that a whole choir could read it from one stand. Surviving copies are valued for their music notation and decoration.
How ANTIPHONARY is used
Used in church history, musicology and manuscript studies; a variant is described under antiphonal.
- The monastery's antiphonary was copied by hand in the twelfth century.
- A page of the antiphonary showed square notes on a four-line staff.
- The choir gathered around the antiphonary to sing vespers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANTIPHONARY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANTIPHONARY
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Common questions about ANTIPHONARY
- Is ANTIPHONARY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANTIPHONARY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANTIPHONARY worth?
- ANTIPHONARY is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANTIPHONARY mean?
- A book of antiphons and other chants sung in the services of the Western Church.
- What letters can be added to ANTIPHONARY?
- No single letter can be added to ANTIPHONARY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of ANTIPHONARY:
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