CENTUM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CENTUM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CENTUM?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CENTUM is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CENTUM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
centumsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CENTUM scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CENTUM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does CENTUM mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The Latin word for one hundred, used in English for a group of a hundred and in comparing Indo-European languages.
Centum is the Latin numeral that gave English its cent-, as in century and percent. Linguists use it as a label for the Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Greek and the Germanic tongues, in which an old back-of-the-mouth k sound stayed a k. They set these against the satem languages, like Russian, where the sound turned into a hissing one. Outside that field the word is rare and mostly bookish.
How CENTUM is used
Linguistic term; also appears in older texts as a group of a hundred items.
- Latin belongs to the centum branch of the family.
- The word centum is the source of English percent.
- A centum of sonnets was bound into a single volume.
- The lecture contrasted centum and satem languages.
- Greek is another centum language, with its k sound intact.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CENTUM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CENTUM
6 longer words begin with CENTUM.
Shorter words from the letters in CENTUM
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Common questions about CENTUM
- Is CENTUM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CENTUM, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CENTUM worth?
- CENTUM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CENTUM mean?
- The Latin word for one hundred, used in English for a group of a hundred and in comparing Indo-European languages.
- What letters can be added to CENTUM?
- CENTUM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CENTUM:
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