ASSAI is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ASSAI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ASSAI?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ASSAI is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ASSAI
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ASSAI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ASSAI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does ASSAI mean in Scrabble?
adverb
music
A musical direction meaning "very," used together with a tempo marking such as allegro or adagio.
Composers add assai to a tempo instruction to push it further in the same direction, so allegro assai calls for a faster tempo than allegro alone and adagio assai asks for an even slower one. The word comes from Italian, the traditional language of musical notation, and performers learn to read it as an intensifier rather than a tempo in its own right. It appears printed above the staff at the start of a movement or section, never as a stand-alone marking. Musicians encounter assai mainly through sheet music and scores rather than in spoken language.
How ASSAI is used
Technical musical term found in scores and performance instructions, always paired with another tempo marking.
- The score marked the final movement allegro assai.
- Adagio assai told the pianist to slow the passage further.
- She explained that assai simply means very in this context.
- The conductor asked for more energy at the allegro assai.
- Older editions sometimes print assai in smaller italic type.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ASSAI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ASSAI
12 longer words begin with ASSAI.
Words with ASSAI inside
21 words contain ASSAI in the middle. Words that start with ASSAI are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ASSAI
Common questions about ASSAI
- Is ASSAI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ASSAI, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ASSAI worth?
- ASSAI is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ASSAI mean?
- A musical direction meaning "very," used together with a tempo marking such as allegro or adagio.
- What letters can be added to ASSAI?
- ASSAI takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ASSAI:
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