BUXOMNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. BUXOMNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUXOMNESS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUXOMNESS is to know. It scores 20 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUXOMNESS
No single letter turns BUXOMNESS into another word.
How BUXOMNESS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in BUXOMNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BUXOMNESS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BUXOMNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
The quality of being healthily plump and full-figured, especially said of a woman.
Buxomness is an old-fashioned word that suggests good health and a generous figure, and today it can sound patronising. It comes from an older sense of buxom meaning yielding and cheerful.
How BUXOMNESS is used
Used mostly in literary or humorous descriptions of a full figure.
- The painter admired the buxomness of his model.
- Her buxomness, once prized in portraits, was out of fashion.
- Novels of that era praise buxomness as a sign of health.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUXOMNESS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUXOMNESS
1 longer words begin with BUXOMNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in BUXOMNESS
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Common questions about BUXOMNESS
- Is BUXOMNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUXOMNESS, where it scores 24 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUXOMNESS worth?
- BUXOMNESS is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUXOMNESS mean?
- The quality of being healthily plump and full-figured, especially said of a woman.
- What letters can be added to BUXOMNESS?
- No single letter can be added to BUXOMNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of BUXOMNESS:
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