CENSE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CENSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CENSE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CENSE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CENSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CENSE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CENSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,765.
What does CENSE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To perfume the air with burning incense, especially as part of a religious ceremony.
To cense an altar is to swing a small vessel of burning incense on a chain so that its smoke spreads through the air around a shrine, statue, or congregation. Cense is a shortened form of incense and once referred more broadly to any use of incense in worship. Today the word survives mainly in descriptions of older or highly traditional religious ceremonies.
How CENSE is used
Chiefly found in descriptions of religious ritual, especially in older or liturgical writing.
- The priest would cense the altar before the service began.
- Attendants used a swinging vessel to cense the shrine.
- The old text describes how the deacon would cense the congregation.
- They still cense the icons during the special feast day.
- Smoke rose as the celebrant began to cense the altar.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CENSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CENSE
The 5 tiles of CENSE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CENSE
4 longer words begin with CENSE.
Words ending in CENSE
6 words end in CENSE. Useful as a back hook: play CENSE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CENSE inside
20 words contain CENSE in the middle. Words that start with CENSE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CENSE
Common questions about CENSE
- Is CENSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CENSE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CENSE worth?
- CENSE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CENSE mean?
- To perfume the air with burning incense, especially as part of a religious ceremony.
- What letters can be added to CENSE?
- CENSE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CENSE:
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